In G2 today Anita Sethi interviews Anjum Anand, whose BBC cookery series and accompanying cookbooks (last summer's Indian Food Made Easy toppled Harry Potter from the Amazon bestseller list) have led to her being dubbed "the Indian Nigella".
In an attempt to haul Anita out of her fish finger sandwich-encrusted food rut, Anjum kindly taught her how to rustle up fragrant coconut mustard prawns during the interview. Anita grew up in Manchester in the 1980s and eschewed her mother's Indian cooking as a child, but since meeting Anjum and trying one of her recipes, she has become obsessed with exploring her culinary heritage and is finally learning how to cook good food.
When I was a child I hated traditional English stews. To me they were just plates of brown gloop with dogfood-esque lumps of meat and carrots poking out. Now I'm a grown-up, I regularly phone my parents for those very same hearty casserole recipes.
Anyone else rediscovered and ended up loving the food they turned their noses up at when young?
