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Saliha Mahmood Ahmed
Saliha Mahmood Ahmed was the winner of MasterChef in 2017.
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Dr Saliha Mahmood Ahmed is the winner of MasterChef UK 2017 and author of Khazana, which won the Observer Food Monthly Best Cookbook of the Year 2019.
Saliha was also shortlisted for the Travel Cookery Book of the Year in the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards and was winner of the Summer Harvest Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2020, in the category Celebrity Chef in English. Saliha was also the winner of Best Chef at the British Restaurant Awards 2019.
She is based in London, works for the NHS, and has two young children. Her next cookbook celebrating her career as a Gastroenterologist and Chef is called 'Foodology' and will be released in May 2021.
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