Welcome Ilana-Davita from France for this week’s reader interview:

1. Name, location, family: Ilana-Davita, France, me and my partner whose grown-up kids have left the house.
2. What do you remember about family meals when you were growing up? What was your mother’s cooking style? (If she did the cooking of course.) Were you involved? My mother loved cooking, she still does, and she was an example to me. Even now whenever she goes to the hairdresser,’s she looks at the magazines and copies recipes that she will adapt. She never follows a recipe to the letter.