Hello and I so hope you are enjoying the series. And today I'm continuing our journey with interesting and dynamic well-being warriors working

in the feel-good food space. So who better to welcome than

Melissa Hemsley? One half of the famed Hemsley sisters whose food business

Hemsley and Hemsley has contributed so much to good modern healthy home

cooking.

Welcome, Melissa.

Thank you, Liz.

Have I said your surname correctly?

Yes, I was just looking at you and all, that was a very long center and you said everything perfectly and smoothly and not a single fumble on the name.

Oh gosh well that might come later.

Tell me I want to know really going right back into the beginning, did you grow up with, you know,

not like the silver spoon in the mouth but with the kind of the sauce but in the hand because you just seem to have been cooking forever.

Yeah, no, definitely not. I, Jazz and I were both brought up on lots and lots of

home cooked food. I mean I would probably say it was 99% home cooked food. My mum's line was why would we go out when we can do better at home and cheaper?

And she, my mom and dad both worked really, really hard all the time it felt like and she was very much of when

we get home we'll put everything from the fridge into a pot and she would call it Sunday

soup instead of a Sunday roast we'd have Sunday soup, which got a bit annoying after a while

because I just wanted a roast, but now I actually do the same thing and I make a big Sunday soup.

But she also, she's from the Philippines, so there was always so much flavor in the food.

So even when it was a leftover or a very simple soup, there's so much.

And she always used to say, you know, onions, garlic and ginger,

you can make anything taste good.

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