The lucky among us inherit precious, fragile recipe books, stuffed with notes and recipes cut out from newspapers, that are scrawled all over by a grandparent or parent and splodged with flour and unidentifiable sauce. But not supper club host Ranie Saidi, who has had to piece together his beloved grandmother’s dishes from memory.
“My late grandmother’s recipe book was stolen after her passing,” says Saidi, who was largely raised by his grandmother and grandfather in the north of Malaysia, after his parents married young and had him while still at medical school. His grandmother was a renowned wedding caterer, and “what is upsetting is that only people who know where she kept [her cookbook], might have stolen or taken it”.
