LAHORE – Pakistani-American chef Fatima Ali, who passed away earlier thisyear after a battle with cancer, was honoured with the James Beard MediaAward in the Personal Essay, Short Form category on Saturday.
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The essay in question was titled ‘I’m a Chef with Terminal Cancer. This IsWhat I’m Doing with the Time I Have Left’ which she had written in October2018 for Bon Appetite magazine.
Fatima was diagnosed with a rare type of bone and soft tissue cancer,Ewing’s sarcoma in 2017 and after being declared cancer-free in 2017, thelate chef was diagnosed again in February 2018. The celebrity chef hadrevealed in a heart-breaking essay back in October 2018 that doctorsestimated she had only a year left to live.
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She wrote an essay for Bon Appétit in which she spoke about how she and herdoctors had thought the cancer was gone but was back in her hip and femur.
A ceremony for the awards is scheduled to be held on May 6 in the USA.
