PICKY

From fussy eater to professional food critic Jimi s story is a culinary journey like no other JAMIE OLIVER An insightful engaging and often profound memoir BEE WILSON The Sunday Times Exquisite evocative writing ANDI OLIVER A rich and nourishing story of food and identity ANGELA HUI Shows us that food is never just food it s memory identity and home ASMA KHAN Food is never just food It is freighted with our upbringings our heritage and our sense of self Jimi Famurewa spends his days hunting out the very best food London has to offer and writing about it But as a child he hid gobbets of mash in his pocket at school refused all vegetables and looked forward to Happy Meals in the back of a steamed up car after late night football practice He spent weekends in crowded flats at parties watching his family preserve their Nigerian roots through jollof and fried plantain as well as grow new shoots through American delights like Aunt Jemima s pancake syrup furtively hidden in suitcases But what happens when he grows up stretching beyond the joyful chaos of his mother s kitchen and into the uncharted territory unfamiliar flavours and overlapping identities of the adult world With glorious dollops of nostalgia Picky is as