“Food can bring back loved ones we’ve lost”
Roy Brett learned his trade with Mark Hix and Rick Stein and now has his own celebrated seafood restaurant, Ondine, in his hometown of Edinburgh. Despite his reputation for cooking fish in a light, modern way, the dish that inspired Roy to become a chef was his granny’s old-school rib-sticker of a rice pudding
TASTES LIKE HOME
“Every Sunday my granny would make this wonderful dish. It was the only day of the week that we’d all sit round the table as a family, as my dear late father and mother worked hard all week long. Granny’s rice pudding is satisfying and reassuringly British. Golden syrup was a staple in her pantry and the memory of prising it off the larder shelf, with all its sticky drippings, is still vivid.