EDITH’S NOTEBOOK
Meeting Edith was going to be an exciting, overwhelming and especially an otherworldly experience for me. She is an Austrian born Jew of the same age with my country Romania: 102 years.
Meeting Edith was going to be an exciting, overwhelming and especially an otherworldly experience for me. She is an Austrian born Jew of the same age with my country Romania: 102 years.
My Jamaican Grandmother lived with us and took full responsibility for feeding my brothers and I (and half the neighborhood!)
The British are blessed with a fine sense of humour and an ability to make fun of ourselves. I most definitely grew up with ‘British Rail‘ jokes of awful toast, tea and pork pies on board, combined with very late trains !
My culinary heritage is Greek. My parents were born on a small island in the south east of Greece. They lived during the Italian occupation, in a time when food was very scarce…
Grandma Mia has a lot of food stories to tell; she tells them in the kitchen every day by preparing delicious meals for us; she tells them sharing memories and recreating recipes from the past; she tells them by inspiring me every day.