British-born to Burmese parents, MiMi Aye has spent her whole life soaking up Burmese food, language, and culture through numerous trips to see family and friends back home, as well as in the UK. Her latest book ‘MANDALAY: Recipes & Tales from a Burmese Kitchen’ was shortlisted for the 2020 Guild of Food Writers Awards, and was chosen by The Observer, The Financial Times, and The Mail on Sunday as one of their Best Books of 2019.
MANDALAY was described by Nigella Lawson as ‘a really loving and hungry-making introduction to a fascinating cuisine’, by Jay Rayner as ‘a gorgeous book full of narrative and recipes, with an unignorable cover in the brightest of yellows and the deepest of crimsons [which] schooled me lightly in a culinary Burma’, and by Tom Parker-Bowles as ‘a glorious revelation . . . autobiography, history and recipes all rolled into one magnificent whole . . . a brilliant, beguiling book’.
MiMi co-hosts the food and culture podcast The MSG Pod and she also hosts supperclub and online community Burmese Food & Beyond. She is on Twitter and Instagram as @meemalee and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/itsmeemalee
