I'm Lorna.

I'm Lorna. By day I work in tech. At my core, food has always been my love language.

I grew up in Mauritius, where a meal is never just a meal — it's how you say sorry, how you say welcome, and how you find out what the aunties really think of you. I live in the Midlands now, with two children and a Labradoodle, and I've spent the last few years working out how to keep that way of eating alive in the middle of England.

It got more complicated recently. I've more or less stopped eating meat (I'm calling it flexitarian in case I relapse over a good steak). My daughter has gone properly vegetarian. My son and everyone else at the table have not. So this is a blog about feeding a family that eats differently.

You'll find honest reviews of places in and around the Midlands, judged on whether they can feed all of us well; food guides to the places we travel; the occasional recipe when a cooking night produces one worth sharing; and a lot of Mauritius, because it never quite leaves you.

I'm also writing a book. It's a survival guide to Mauritian Creole for anyone who has fallen for one of us — how to deal with our quirks, how to butter up the mother-in-law, how to tell when you're in trouble. Subscribers will hear about it first before it's published.

The photos here are mostly mine, and very amateurish — usually taken on a phone with someone's fork already in the frame. Meals and stays are paid for by me unless a post says otherwise at the top.

If any of that sounds like your table, subscribe. It's free, it's fortnightly, and you can reply — I read everything.