Chief coordinator Glenda Andrew, (r), assists volunteers with preparing the meals for delivery. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
Glenda Andrew pulls a tray of salmon from the oven, filling the community centres kitchen with the aroma of garlic, cayenne and lemon rising from its crackling skin.
It is the scent of memory, of family dinners and church socials the warmth of the Caribbean in the middle of a grey English winter made gloomier by COVID-19.
This is food for the soul, Andrew says, and it’s needed now more than ever by Britain’s older immigrants who have been isolated from friends and family by the pandemic.
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