Shehar Bano Rizvi

Shehar Bano Rizvi

Cookbook author and blogger

Shehar Bano Rizvi is a Karachi girl who was born and raised in the city of lights. Her family originally hails from Agra, India but her grandparents migrated to Karachi, after the partition of the Indian subcontinent. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Software Engineer by profession. A Pakistani expat living in Qatar for over 16 years, whose maternal instincts took over her career aspirations leading her to give up her high-profile banking career to be a hands-on mother. She is now a mother of three beautiful children – Amna, Hamza, and Hassan.

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Behind The Cookbook – Virsa: A Culinary Journey from Agra to Karachi

Behind The Cookbook – Virsa: A Culinary Journey from Agra to Karachi

Shehar Bano Rizvi’s debut cookbook, Virsa: A Culinary Journey from Agra to Karachi, is a collection of family recipes and memories that she has dedicated to her parents. By turning her family recipes into a full-color, beautifully photographed book, Shehar has saved heirloom dishes for posterity – while giving readers an insight into her family’s food traditions.