This week Di and Nicola speak to the inspiring and delightful Jane Grover. Jane is a former chef, turned home cook and the author of 2 amazing cookbooks, Naked Food and Our Delicious Adventure. She offers cooking classes and Afternoon Tea With An Author events in her home, and wants to empower people to feel unafraid to cook and eat well. Jane is also a loving wife and mother of 3, with a grand sense of adventure and generosity of spirit. This generosity has led to her becoming a board member of the Te-Kworo Foundation, a charity dedicated to the rehabilitation and education of war-affected women and children in northern Uganda.

In this episode we hear how Jane first got started as a chef and the conscious decision she made to step away from her career for a period of time to be a stay-at-home mum to her 3 children. Jane talks about her love of food, how she became deeply interested in good quality and nutritious ingredients, and the inspiration behind her first cookbook, Naked Food, which was about sharing simple, whole food recipes that taste great and are good for you.

Jane shares about the incredible adventure she went on around Australia with her husband and youngest son, and how this led to her second cookbook, Our Delicious Adventure. 

We also hear the inspiring story of how Jane met and became friends with Alice Achan, a Ugandan woman dedicated to educating and rehabilitating girls returning from captivity. When Alice became stranded in Australia during Covid, Jane took her under her wing and spent her days looking after Alice. The two formed a beautiful friendship, which led to Jane working for the Te-Kworo foundation, which Alice founded to help young women in Uganda.  

Jane is a beautiful storyteller and a warm-hearted and generous soul, whose love of people and the world shines through in this episode. We hope you feel as inspired as we did chatting with her. 

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