A foodie and a patriot

With a new restaurant in London’s Leicester Square and a glossy new cookbook, restaurateur Mahmood Akbar is championing & celebrating Pakistani Cuisine.

The Salt' n Pepper Village Cookbook is available from all major bookshops and at Salt n Pepper restaurants

Mahmood Akbar is passionate about food. It is both his profession and his obsession. From an early age, watching his mother cook in the warmth of their Rawalpindi kitchen, Akbar was fascinated by the magical process whereby the same seeming mundane ingredients were turned into a variety of different delicious dishes. It appeared to him to be nothing less than art.