Nish Kumar: ‘Nando’s is the only thing uniting this increasingly fragmented nation’
The comedian on how he rates his cooking skills, food disasters and the link between the chicken restaurant and David Attenborough
Growing up, our big treat was that once a month we’d go to Pizza Hut. Me and my brother would think about it all the time: Pizza Hut; salad buffet; Ice Cream Factory. Until The Simpsons came out on VHS, it did not get any better than that.
Restaurants are the closest thing to a family business. Because it was my grandad’s racket: he ran Indian restaurants in Leicester in the 1980s. His last job before he retired was running a greasy spoon, like a proper English greasy spoon, which I always thought was a triumph of cultural integration.
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