My mum was a single parent raising three kids. Because of that, we had to learn our way around the kitchen quite quickly. I don’t know if that created a love of food – my mum’s an amazing cook, so that probably helped, too. I just love the puzzle of being in a kitchen and figuring out flavours. She set us up well.
Growing up, we ate internationally because my mum was a nurse, and she told me they were always swapping recipes. She had quite an experimental side to her as well. There was a lot of Chinese food that didn’t come out quite right, but she would get there. And of course Nigerian food: jollof rice is a classic – and ground rice with a Nigerian stew, which is a really tomato-y stew.
