Deshi Shad - Women’s Food Enterprise
The Deshi Shad team.
Selma, one of Deshi Shad, showing off the cucumbers she’s growing. A good example of the ingenuity, resourcefulness, and skill so many Bengali women in Tower Hamlets have.
A Big Dawat
To launch the project we hosted a dawat (a big family feast) at the old Limehouse Town Hall. It gave us the chance to showcase our group’s talent with this festive lunch, serving up delicious Bengali food, the kind not found in restaurants - yet!
Brick Lane Pop-Up
For one night only (to begin with...) Deshi Shad, the name the women chose for their business, opened Brick Lane’s first Women-led pop-up Curry House! We were proud to celebrate the end of the pilot run of this exciting new Women’s Food Enterprise project with such a spectacular and tasty evening of food, good company and great achievements.
(Deshi Shad means a ‘Taste of Bangladesh’)
Stitches in Time, is proud to launch its exciting new Women’s Food Enterprise project working with local residents from the Bangladeshi community in Tower Hamlets, London.
Inspired by their rich local knowledge of traditional Bengali cuisine, the project will brought together 30 talented chefs from the borough with women professionals from the food industry in a series of workshops and food events. By inviting established chefs and foodies to share skills, tips and advice, alongside inspiring personal stories, the project aims to challenge stereotypes, build confidence, and create opportunities for local women and aspiring food entrepreneurs.
Catering for all occasions!
Deshi Shad is also offering catering for private events, work lunches, conferences, Christmas parties, and all other occasions. We can offer you a selection of menus to choose from according to your needs, and are happy to deliver - and even serve - our delicious food at your premises.
By ordering from us you will be helping to provide an opportunity for members of our group to gain professional experience in catering operations, and you will be able to try the very best in Bengali food!
thomas@stitchesintime.org.uk to make an enquiry.
The project is part of the Tackling Poverty Fund, an initiative by Tower Hamlets council supporting innovative ideas to help into employment marginalised people living in a borough with the greatest level of inequality in the country and where 74% of Bangladeshi women are considered economically inactive.
You will be able to find the project in and around East London. We have been running street food markets, catering for private events, providing cooking lessons and, finally, setting up the first women run pop-up curry house on Brick Lane!