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Many people kept their heads down in 2020, but Ellie Bouhadana had her busiest year ever. When the pandemic put an end to her shifts at Balaclava s now-closed Ilona Staller, the self-taught chef started a pasta delivery business on Instagram. I got my home kitchen council-approved and was making hundreds of portions of pasta by hand, she says. I started delivering to 20 or so people, then it got much bigger and I was suddenly delivering 160 portions every Sunday.