When Nadiya Hussain was in the midst of the gruelling 10-week culinary challenge that is the Great British Bake Off, there was one family member who had no interest in sampling her flavourful creations and elaborate showstoppers.
“My mum is very basic. If I make her cake, she likes to call it ‘no flavour’,” Hussain says on a Zoom call from her home in Milton Keynes, explaining that her Bangladeshi parents didn’t grow up eating chocolate bars or sweets. “My dad used to buy us apples as a treat. I’m like, ‘Dad that’s not a treat’.”
