In November 2017, strangers Lisa and Alessandro both swiped right on a dating app, and quickly a mutual love of food surfaced. Lisa shared her grandmother’s Caribbean recipes and Alessandro recounted years spent cooking by his grandmother’s side in Campania, Italy.
Lisa, 29, says, “My Nanna Helen held the family together, and every Sunday we’d go to hers for Sunday lunch. It was sweet to learn Alessandro’s grandma Raffaella was the same. Cooking had brought our families together, and now it was doing the same for us.
“I grew up in Manchester and Nanna lived nearby, and after school, I’d
