I returned to London from a trip through Lille, Brussels, Köln and Amsterdam. I set out to see cities. Somewhere along the way, I realised I was also learning how to see myself. I travel by observing. I notice buildings, yes, but I also notice the shops underneath them. I notice what people are eating, what is sitting outside grocery stores, how businesses present themselves, what people buy in bulk, what a neighbourhood smells like, what is considered beautiful and what peop

Welcome to Chef Dumebi’s Journal Every food story begins somewhere. Mine began at the Sunday table. Before the restaurants, cooking classes, television appearances, food brands and consultancy work, there was the table—a place where food arrived with memory attached. It was where I first understood that a meal could be more than something we ate. It could be instruction, welcome, identity, celebration and a record of where we had come from. That understanding has followed me