When Camila Vargas talks about her mother, the ‘courageous’ Maria do Carmo Vargas Souza, tears prick at her eyes and goosebumps run all up her arms. Camila was the ‘wild one’ of six sisters, all of whom joined the family cooking business, Little Piece of Bahia, which Maria established back home in Brazil in 1989. All except Camila.
She had never cooked a day in her life, and had no intention of doing so either. While her sisters were all drawn to the family’s kitchen, growing up in Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia, north of Rio and Sao Paulo, she was not. Instead, she went to London to study economics.
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