“when you’re cooking it′s easy to build trust”
fter meeting at a barbecue for the first time in person in June 2020, Amrita Lal, 31, and Kym McAdam, 34, instantly bonded. After months spent in lockdown, New Zealand expat Amrita was thrilled to spot a home comfort on the table: lamington cake. Fellow expat Kym, from Australia, had baked it using an old family recipe, and it brought back many happy memories for Amrita. She says, ‘Back home, whenever I was on school holidays as a kid, I’d go to work with my dad. We’d stop at the bakery on the way and I’d usually pick a chocolate lamington. Seeing Kym’s at that barbecue gave me flashbacks of precious memories with my dad, and
