I’m forever making it out like I have got it all together and I know what I’m doing. The truth is I haven’t got a clue what I’m doing. Nadiya Hussain Read Quote
Cod and clementine is one of the things my grandmother cooked for my mum when she was a child. Never one for waste, she’d keep the peel whenever she had a clementine, and this dish puts it to work. Nadiya Hussain Read Quote
My grandmother spent a lot of time with us when we were growing up. She did the school runs and fed us when my mum was busy. To be with her was to really be at home. Nadiya Hussain Read Quote
My own kids are absolutely allowed to help me cook it. They of course have the added bonus of knowing how to bake. That wasn’t really a concept when I was a kid – I learned it at school in home economics, then started properly when I was home with my children. They love helping me. Nadiya Hussain Read Quote
I spent a lot of time with extended family when I was young. Every weekend, Dad would buy half a sheep and Mum would cook for about 50 people, and we would all eat on the couch, in the kitchen, spilling out into the garden. Nadiya Hussain Read Quote
As a child, I loved being outdoors. Our house had a railway track going past it. Of course, Mum told us not to go near it and, of course, we did. There were amazing blackberry bushes growing all along it, and we collected the fruit. Nadiya Hussain Read Quote
I do identify as a Muslim and I do identify as a Bangladeshi girl, I identify as British, as well, and a woman and I’m a woman of colour, and why am I ashamed of that? And I used to not want to talk about it. But that is me. Nadiya Hussain Read Quote
But I understand the importance of being a brown, Muslim woman of faith who is in the public eye, because there aren’t that many of us. Nadiya Hussain Read Quote
Once you’ve had a panic attack you live in fear that another one is going to come. From the second it’s gone, every moment every day is about the next one. Nadiya Hussain Read Quote
If I break my finger, I go to accident and emergency. If I have a cold, I go to the pharmacy. If I’m broken inside, where do I go? So, to help myself heal, I felt the best way to do this would be to talk, to share and to better understand what it is that I have. Nadiya Hussain Read Quote
