The idea of Life Kitchen is simple, but enormously persuasive. As anyone who has undergone chemotherapy will tell you, one of the most frequent and demoralising side-effects is a loss or dramatic change in the sense of taste. Life Kitchen is designed to try to help mitigate that loss, to teach cooking skills and recipes that might restore some pleasure in food, and to do so alongside others facing similar challenges.

Read more about Ryan Riley, who lost his mother to cancer, and his achievements in gaining the interest and attention of well known chefs and TV cooking personalities such as Nigella Lawson, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Ton Cenci, who features particularly in this recent article in the i newspaper, or this one in the Guardian newspaper.