Jenny Mallin: Five Generations of a British Raj family seen through their granddaughter

A Berkshire-based award-winning author and public speaker ‘Best in World’ cookbook award winner for 2017 by the prestigious Gourmand World Cookbook Society for her book “A Grandmother’s Legacy”. As a public speaker Jenny delivers a fascinating insight into five generations of her family who lived during the days of the British Raj in India. 

Seen through the eyes of their granddaughter, Jenny captures a period of British history through her Powerpoint presentations with an extensive collection of family sepia photographs, and manages to bring her stories to life: her grandmothers’ lives as memsahibs and the “legacy” that Jenny has been given, a 170 year old cookbook penned by Jenny’s great 4x grandmother in 1844 when she was aged just 15 and a newly-wed bride, married to an English schoolmaster. Jenny also describes her grandfathers, uncles and relatives who served in the British Army as early as 1798, The Royal Indian…