Sign up to IndyEat’s free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free When Madeeha Qureshi’s father, Gulzar Ahmed Qureshi, died, the BBC One MasterChef finalist says she “couldn’t cry afterwards” – for three years. Referring to him as Aba Jan, he died in 2018, but it took writing her first cookbook for Qureshi to fully grieve her loss. “I cried endlessly writing this book,” says the 44-year-old. “Every single memory was coming from my heart – I’ve cut my heart open and I’ve poured it physically into this book.” Through writing and finally releasing her emotions, Qureshi says she has learned that “grief is a final form of love” and hopes that, while also inspiring people to cook, she can “normalise” conversations on grief and loss, too. “Having that part of grief in you is not wrong, and we shouldn’t be hiding it, we shouldn’t be masking it,” she says. “We should normalise it, the feeling of …