I was determined when I turned 50 it was going to be a great time, because I understand perfectly well the privilege of reaching my half century. So many people in the music industry just don’t get there. Or they get there and they are in a real state. And I’m here, relatively unscathed. So I’m really careful about what I eat. What goes in my body in general. Just because I know what food can do. It can be obviously a wonderful comfort and a treat, but it’s also really healing … She says, just having demolished a sausage roll.
Growing up, I ate mostly Jamaican heritage or a Jamaican take on British food. I remember I asked Mum to make a shepherd’s pie, which she did, but she made it much more interesting, because the seasoning was a bit more lively. So there would be that blending of the food-culture lines. But things like welsh rarebit, I bloody love that, don’t change a thing! Absolutely fantastic.
