
Leyla Kazim
Freelance Presenter at BBC Radio 4
MasterChef UK Critic at Shine TV
Writer at A Day Well Spent with Leyla Kazim
Presenter • Writer • Journalist | Food • Travel • Wellbeing @MasterChefUK @BBCFoodProg | Ambassador @PracticalAction | Weekly newsletter on purposeful living 📩
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2 weeks ago |
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You have 7 days left to purchase my limited edition debut special Pathways, until 27th May. Then it’s gone 🎈That people read and resonate with them. I have found the most impactful books in my life have been the ones that have left me feeling empowered and validated the way I think, when I had previously felt cautious about sharing my viewpoints beyond the safety of close friends and family. They are books that gave me the confidence to have conviction in what I believe.
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2 weeks ago |
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🎧 You can catch me presenting this week’s episode of BBC Radio 4’s The Food Programme called From York to Dubai: The Rise of Chocolate. It’s not hard to argue most books we connect with change our lives to some degree, even if only small. I think this fact often slips us by; we don’t always trace back the new and enlightening conversation we’re having to that book we read last summer. But other times, it’s really obvious.
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3 weeks ago |
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I had no intention to even write a book, at least not now. Pathways had not been conceived, had never been talked about and wasn’t even a kernel of an idea in the depths of my psyche. The book was not a thing in my life in any sense of the word. A few months before, in April 2024, my friend and bestselling author sent me a WhatsApp.
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3 weeks ago |
leylakazim.substack.com | Leyla Kazim |Rosie Birkett
We talked about so many things.
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1 month ago |
leylakazim.substack.com | Leyla Kazim
What happens when the only place you've called home (London) is unable to support the kind of life you dream of? Three years ago my husband and I made a life-changing decision and it is now finally, really happening. *inhale*1) We are uprooting our entire lives and moving to Portugal. We are building a house powered by the sun on a 3-acre patch of countryside with a ruin, just outside Lisbon. We are doing this to answer a calling to the land. and… 2) I've written a book about it! It's my debut book.
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A one minute video from 'The Best Restaurant in Latin America' and '10th Best Restaurant in the World' according to @TheWorlds50Best. I eat there whenever I'm in Buenos Aires, it's one of my faves. For the steak lovers: https://t.co/4wxn5XHXkP 📽️ https://t.co/vDZxiZ5kmx

Today’s newsletter column is about what my brother and I reckon to be the single best thing our parents ever suggested we do as children. We both believe it's been integral in defining the adults we have become. Read it at the link in my bio 📩 https://t.co/DMcNnRbn1G

Delighted that the short film I made w/ @GWandShows last summer is going out again tomo night, Friday 9pm BBC Two, then afterwards on BBC iPlayer at the link below. If you’d like to have a nose around my garden for 8 minutes, do tune in! https://t.co/H6hglnNJB8 #GardenersWorld https://t.co/hhqS12kivd