At Oitij-jo Kitchen

Last weekend we launched our crowdfund and have raised £3,814 towards our target so far. Click here to support our crowdfund to publish Sarah Ainslie’s WOMEN AT WORK ‘We want to celebrate the work that the women do’ . People often ask where they can find authentic Bengali food in Spitalfields and I have found the answer in Oitij-jo Kitchen, a women’s collective who run the catering operation at Rich Mix Arts Centre in the Bethnal Green Rd. Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie spent a morning recording the activity in the kitchen while I sat down with co-founder Maher Anjum who explained to me what it is all about, before we all reconvened for a taste test. “Four of us set up the Oitij-jo collective in 2013 straight after the 2012 London Olympics. We had Akram Khan in the opening ceremony but nothing else. We were all creatives, so we asked ourselves ‘Where are we in this scenario?’ We set up Oitij-jo to be a platform for creative practitioners from the Bangladeshi disapora,…