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For as long as she can remember, Julia Adamson’s daughter, Lexie, has loved being in the kitchen. Their shared passion for cooking helped them forge an unbreakable bond, and has seen them through the tougher months of isolation during the pandemic.

‘It started when Lexie was little,’ Julia says, ‘I’d be prepping and this little hand would stretch up to the worktop, checking out what was going on.’

Lexie, 19, has Down’s Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and Julia was told early on that a focus

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