‘I’ve seen peace, I’ve seen war, I’ve seen everything’: MasterChef finalist Madeeha Qureshi on grief, family and The Red Sea Cookbook

MasterChef finalist Madeeha Qureshi celebrates the flavours and memories behind Saudi cuisine - (Patricia Niven)

When Madeeha Qureshi’s father, Gulzar Ahmed Qureshi, died, the BBC One MasterChef finalist says she “couldn’t cry afterwards” – for three years.

Referring to him as Aba Jan, he died in 2018, but it took writing her first cookbook for Qureshi to fully grieve her loss.