Ronni Kahn

"Growing up in an ethnic family, food was always central. In the Jewish religion, on Friday nights you bring in the Sabbath – for us it wasn’t so much a religious occasion but more a ritualistic one."

"Research shows that out of every five shopping bags of produce we buy, we throw one away; we waste one."

"Since starting OzHarvest I’ve repurposed my life, and that has allowed me to find my true calling. I’m not special; I’m not exceptional – if there’s a lesson to learn it’s that all of us have the ability and capacity to be the best we can be."

"So when I suddenly looked at myself with this six inch ‘fro’ it made me feel like a newly born woman."

"Many white people of that apartheid-era have never really discussed that we were all raised by these loving black nannies."

"To look after me, Florrie had to leave her own family. Yet those black nannies came and went, and were considered disposable."