Cooking live with Shamin for Saturday

MARRIED to a Guyanese and living in Queens, New York, Shamin Dudhnath, popularly known as ‘Shamin Di’ has a large Guyanese following for her cooking show in which she cooks live for the benefit of her fans. Her latest one will be on this Saturday at 18:00 hours on her ‘Shamin Di’s Kitchen’ Facebook page when she promises to show her audience her methods and techniques of cooking Crab Curry and Dumpling.
Because she is originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Shamin focuses on West Indian food that can be found throughout the Caribbean and even has a Facebook group called West Indian Delight and Entertainment with over 12,000 members. “I am not a caterer but because of my passion for cooking, I do my own recipes to share and I started posting my food on Facebook and getting a lot of positive feedback,” she explained of the reason she started cooking live some seven months ago. The response from her viewers, whom she said are made up of about 75 percent Guyanese, motivated her to continue coming on social media to cook live. She even manages a Youtube Channel.

Shamin cooks in a setting that is very much like the ones Guyanese enjoy with their drinks, music and family. “I play music while I am cooking, so it’s real home style. I am cooking in the comfort of my home and not in some fancy restaurant,” she pointed out.
Married to Davindra Dudhnath from New Amsterdam, Berbice, Shamin spent a lot of time cooking with her mother-in-law Dhoorpati Jagoo. She said most of the things she learnt when she was younger came from her mother-in-law.
“She taught me to clap roti and it was good because I was accustomed to seeing my mom cook roti differently. She also showed me how to make bara, cassava ball, egg ball, fried channa, and things like that. Shamin also believes that her love for cooking stems from when she was young and had to ensure she finished cooking before her parents returned home from work in their garden. They were hard workers. Today, Shamin loves to cook curry and dhal puri. “It doesn’t matter what type of curry, but I just love to look curry.”
She also recalled how her in-laws encouraged her to take orders for roti and curry when she was out of a job. “I guess they saw the potential in me and pushed me in this direction.”