Ryan Riley saw his mother lose her appetite after starting chemotherapy. Now he’s helping cancer patients to find pleasure in food again
There are many days when social media can seem only a venue for bad news and even worse opinions. So it is heartening when the medium shows it can be a force for good, as with the creation and thriving of Life Kitchen, the winner of OFM’s Best Ethical Food Project for 2018.
Ryan Riley, a 25-year-old food writer and stylist, launched the Life Kitchen in February to provide free, specialised cookery classes for people living with cancer. One of the first people to notice was Nigella Lawson, who lost her first husband, John Diamond, to throat cancer. She began posting about Life Kitchen to her 2.6m followers on Twitter and hasn’t stopped. “She’s always tweeting, ‘How amazing is Life Kitchen?’” says Riley. “She’s been a supporter since about day three.”
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