The family Ghanaian-Caribbean food stall that draws queues across Piccadilly Gardens
When Rita Linsdell says she comes from ‘a cooking family’, she really means it. Her daughters Olivia and Leya, sons Isaac and Matthew, and her husband Darren, all live in the same house in Mottram and work for the family business.
“When I was growing up, jollof rice was an occasion dish,” she tells me. “For Christmas or parties, at least it was where I grew up in Ashanti. But everyone has their own signature way of doing things.” Rita arrived in the UK, and she can recall the date precisely, on August 31, 1985. She was 18, and her mother had married a man from England and moved the family to Manchester. She brushed up her English enrolling at college, and worked at Smithfield Market, getting up at 5am to go and wash pots in the cafe, which served up breakfasts for the hungry market workers.
Their eldest daughter Leya has since branched out herself, and while studying for a law degree, also managed to open Piccadilly Bakes, the cake stall opposite her mum’s.
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