A Scouse nurse who "embraced" her culture by becoming a TikTok star with 175,000 of followers shared her favourite Diwali sweets for the Hindu festival of lights.
Rene Subash, 23, has cooked as long as she can remember, watching her mum and nan make food as a kid. During lockdown, she started posting photos and videos on Instagram to take her mind off work. She said: "I think my friends were getting fed up of seeing me post all the food pictures on my actual Instagram account, so I started a different page and started posting them. It all just started from there really."
Now Rene, who posts as @renes.cravings, shares her cooking with more than 50k followers on Instagram and 175k on TikTok, and she's currently doing this full-time while taking a break from work. Making the videos, many of which show the diversity of Indian food beyond the classic butter chicken, has helped her embrace her identity and culture, which she struggled with after moving to Liverpool from Bangalore, a city in southern India, when she was five.
