Melissa is one of our regular columnists as well as running recipe project Fowl Mouths, through which she innovates in the kitchen and helps drive change in the food industry. She’s a vocal advocate for the promotion of black and minority ethnic people in this field, and in 2022, won the PPA Writer of the Year award. Her debut book, Motherland, is out now (£26, Bloomsbury).
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or me and my family, Sunday lunch is a chance to slow down – in the preparation, cooking and eating of it. We can afford to take longer getting everything ready, so it means enjoying something with a bit more heart and soul that takes time to cook, compared to a quick midweek meal. It’s also a chance to spend some time