After her mother's death in 2010 Celine Marchbank began to clear out her house and to sort through what she had left behind. Among the boxes she found her recipes, beautiful handwritten notes: her mother, Sue Miles, had been a head chef for forty years and was described in her obituary as a leading figure of the British restaurant revolution. The work follows those recipes back into the kitchen and into a daughter's attempt to cook, and to grieve, in a place that was hers.