Cooking Together - 1st Edition Highlights

  • Peter Heslop-Smith

A highlights video for Quilombo UK's first online cooking class Cooking Together, done remotely during the first lockdown of 2020. Focusing on the large Tamil community in Kingston-Upon-Thames, where Quilombo is based, we looked at the fusion of 2 cultures through the dish chicken tikka masala, a dish originally created by Indian immigrants in Glasgow, the exact origin being open to debate. With this melding of cultures we asked our guests, including Cllr Thay Thayalan, a local councillor in Kingston who is originally from the Tamil community in India, the question "what does it mean to be English nowadays?" Link to the full cooking class livestream https://youtube.com/live/xbMep9iypsM