A chef’s guide to North Yorkshire

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

I’ve lived in North Yorkshire all my life. I grew up on a farm in Oldstead, a tiny hamlet just inside the boundary of the North York Moors national park. We would feed the animals – Aberdeen Angus cows and hens – before going to school. 

I was obsessed with cricket; I wanted to play professionally. When I was 18, my grandfather died. I developed ulcerative…