What I learned about leading a happy life from cooking with 100 Mediterranean grandmothers

In the rural villages around Tunis, I discovered one of my favourite dishes featured in my book. Grandmother Latifa poured a soul-firing chickpea stew atop days’ old bread husks, topping it with kicky harissa and a boiled egg to create a lablebi – a worker’s lunch that is both filling and comforting in equal measure. I ate this in Latifa’s chaotic kitchen surrounded by various family members, arms crisscrossing over a retro print tablecloth to seek out favourite toppings (capers,…