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Andi Osho: ‘The only soup I used to eat was tomato. Any other and I was like: What is this witchcraft?’

My mum was a single parent raising three kids. Because of that, we had to learn our way around the kitchen quite quickly. I don’t know if that created a love of food – my mum’s an amazing cook, so that probably helped, too. I just love the puzzle of being in a kitchen and figuring out flavours. She set us up well.

because my mum was a nurseand she toldThere was a lot of Chinese food that didn’t come out quite right, but she would get there. And of course Nigerian food: jollof rice is a classic – and ground rice with a Nigerian stew, which is a really tomato-y stew.

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