If you went into Nadiya Hussain’s kitchen you would probably find orange peels drying out on the window sill.
The 39-year-old British television chef, whose life changed considerably after winning the sixth series of BBC’s Great British Bake Off in 2015, was born on Christmas Day to a Bangladeshi family living in Luton, where there were strict rules about the wastage and repurposing of food: you weren’t allowed to throw anything away, even if it had mould on it.
