TASTES LIKE HOME
“Mum was a wonderful cook and ahead of her time, as in the late 1960s and 70s, when I was growing up, she was making ‘exotic’ curries and Italian dishes when my friends’ mums were still serving dry chops with overcooked veg. She was a beautiful woman with the strongest yet gentlest of spirits, who amid wafts of Chanel No 5 was forever whizzing up good things in the kitchen while the chatter of guests floated through from the other room. She was a genius at making a lot out of a little (my dad, Michael Bourdeaux, founded a charity and research institute that championed human rights and freedom of religion, so there wasn’t a lot of money around).