105 Delhi Rd has always been associated with the smell, taste and memories of food. For years, with dad cooking his 5 weekly meat dishes to help mum, Saturdays would mean not only the house but the whole street would be permeated with the smell of aromatic spices emanating from Delhi Rd.
Narciso was not a tidy cook and the kitchen would often be left in a shambles with 5 dishes on the go in various stages of preparation.
He was, however, a meticulous cook and if the recipe called for some obscure ingredient, he would not improvise, but leave the kitchen mid flow and drive to Edmonton Green to find it, leaving the kitchen looking like the Marie Celeste!