Melissa Thompson of Fowlmouths Food on childhood memories, her passion for food and LGBT activism.

In this episode of Portrait of a Londoner we speak to Melissa Thompson owner of the food and recipe project and popular Instagram account Fowl Mouths Food https://www.fowlmouths.co.uk/

Portrait of a Londoner is a South-east London based podcast and in the first series we will be talking to people who live or work in Forest Hill, South-East London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Hill,_London.

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In this episode,  we discuss:

• Her parents and their influence 
• Growing up in Dorset and early experiences of racism
• Her early years as a journalist at The Mirror
• Transitioning to working in food, running supper clubs and founding Fowl mouths
• Coming out to her parents
• Her LGBT activism
• Her experience of being a parent as a gay, black woman. 

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