BANANA SKIN MOMENT

The worldwide movement to deal with food waste and throwaway culture has not been lost on Lawson, and she has even come up with an innovative solution to deal with one of the most inedible food ingredients you could imagine: banana skins. She says discovering that you could cook and eat the skins was “quite a revelation” and that they don’t even really taste like a banana. They have a “strangely delicate flavour” when cooked in a stew or curry and the skins absorb other flavours. “It’s an extraordinary idea that you can eat what would go in the bin, but there it is,” she says. ”Sometimes you need food to be familiar, and sometimes you need to be surprised.”