Lahore & Memories of Home

In this episode of Kitchen Counter Conversations I speak to Ragini Kashyap, writer and podcaster of the popular platform, Third Culture Cooks.

Ragini and I met in London but it is the memory of Lahore that brings us together. We talk about how Lahore connects us. For Ragini, Lahore is her family ancestral home, the place her grandparents fled during the Pakistan and India Partition in 1947. For me, Lahore is the home my parents chose to bring up us children in the 1990s.

In remembering the city as a past home, we acknowledge our shared culture through our food and love for hospitality. Ragini recognises this as the quality that makes the city itself so special and unique, these elements of Lahore's culture that continue to persist even today. And as her grandmother reminds her regularly, 'Je Lahore Nai Dekhya, O Janmyai Nai,' meaning, if you haven't seen Lahore you have not even born.