I believe that most of us cook and create by being given nuggets of inspiration. We take recipes and cook from them, then we cook them again, and tweak them and add things, and then we cook them again. It was this idea of passing on favourite dishes to the next generation that inspired my first book, Recipes from my Mother for my Daughter. My grandmother’s best friend’s recipes became my mother’s recipes, which in turn became mine and my sister’s, and will, I hope, one day become my daughter’s. That to me is the joy of cooking. It is sharing a love of food, a memory of why something tasted so good, or simply of wanting to feed your loved ones.展开