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March 6, 2021
Danica Kirka
LONDON (AP) – Glenda Andrew pulls a tray of salmon from the oven, filling the community centre’s kitchen with the aroma of garlic, cayenne and lemon rising from its crackling skin.
It is the scent of memory, of family dinners and social circles – 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 said, and it’s needed now more than ever by Britain’s older immigrants who have been isolated from friends and family by the pandemic. Once a week the 57-year-old joins other volunteers to prepare hot meals with the zing of the islands, which they distribute for free to people in Preston and surrounding communities in northwestern England. The area has recorded some of the United Kingdom’s (UK) highest coronavirus infection rates.
TV chefs dish up a surprise for Preston Windrush campaigner Glenda
Local hero Glenda Andrew became a national TV star when three celebrity chefs dished up a special treat for her on a prime time show.
Tuesday, 9th February 2021, 12:08 pm
The Windrush pioneer, who serves more than 400 free meals to needy people in Preston every week, found herself in the spotlight on the BBC’s One Show after friends nominated her to receive the programme’s weekly One Big Thank You award.
Glenda, co-founder of the Preston Windrush Generation and Descendants group, was surprised on a live link by TV chef Ainsley Harriet as she prepared soul food dishes at the Xavier Sanctuary in Sharoe Green Lane, Fulwood.