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Inspiring and tireless The food campaigners I admire

Melissa is one of our regular columnists. In 2021, she was given the prestigious Food Writing Award by the Guild of Food Writers and this year was named Writer of the Year at the Professional Publisher’s Association Awards.

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Food is sustenance, but as a BBC Good Food reader, you know it can also be much more. It can be joy, comfort, celebration and love. And often, it can be used as a vehicle for bigger issues: to educate, raise awareness and raise funds.

At the end of a year that has seen Russia invade Ukraine, causing repercussions around the world – including rising food, petrol and gas prices, to the cost-of-living crisis that has seen families struggle to afford to heat their homes and buy food – it

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