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Even famed restaurateur Vikram Vij was apparently starstruck when he first met Mrs. Noorbanu Nimji.
“I already know who she is,” he gushed. “I have her cookbooks!”
But 80-year-old Calgarian Noorbanu Nimji has sold over 260,000 copies of her books. It was Anderson who introduced me to Nimji. The two met in the ’90s after Anderson took one of Noorbanu’s classes at the Cookbook Company Cooks, and she’s been learning from her ever since.
via Julie Van Rosendaal, for CBC News
