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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Molly Codyre

Asma Khan: ‘So many women set fire to themselves to warm others’

Urszula Sotys/The Independent

The timeline of Darjeeling Express isn’t necessarily an unconventional one. A talented chef begins doing supper clubs, they unsurprisingly take off in popularity and said chef goes on to set up a permanent, bricks and mortar restaurant. But it is not Asma Khan’s journey that makes her, and by extension, her restaurant, so special - it’s the story behind Darjeeling Express and who Khan is as a person that sets it out from the rest.

Khan took time out her busy schedule to talk to us about her unique journey ahead of her appearance at the first Santa Fe Literary Festival being held in May.

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