This month, we bring you cookery classes for those living with cancer, Sri Owen’s perfect rice recipes, a profile of chef Sat Bains, and we have lunch with Robert Webb
My eldest brother and I are having a pub lunch. He orders a piece of battered haddock the size of a small fishing boat and some chips. I spend most of the meal wishing I had followed suit. As our plates are cleared, he points out that it is going out for the day he enjoys rather than the cracking lunch he has just tucked into. “Food doesn’t seem to taste of anything since I started chemo,” he says.
Since that day (and what turned out to be our last meal together) I have noticed others making the same observation: that cancer and often chemotherapy can change how you taste things. Sometimes, food doesn’t taste as you expect, on other occasions it seems to taste of nothing.
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