“I was desperate to get my hands into mum’s mixing bowl”
When Davina Quinlivan’s father died suddenly a few years ago, the film writer and academic felt compelled to resurrect long forgotten foods from her Anglo-Burmese family, re-imagining them in her country cottage in Hampshire. These courgette fritters reconnect her to the faraway past
TASTES LIKE HOME
“My mother and I used to argue all the time. We still do. But cooking was different somehow. When Mum was hard at work in our little 1980s Formica kitchen in Hayes, west London, she’d be concentrating – which meant no noise, no fuss. I watched, desperate to get my hands into whatever mixing bowl she was using.