Coping with grief after mum’s death, a daughter writes a book on the lessons she learned from her in the kitchen

• Ranjini Rao’s mother died of cancer in 2016 but it took the pandemic, and another family loss, to help her channel that grief into a book
• She turned to the kitchen, as her mum always did when feeling low, and came to realise that food and stories are at the very core of our lives