It’s this time of the year that Greeks around the world start eating and/or baking melomakarona, aromatic cookies made of flour and olive oil, flavoured with cinnamon, cloves and orange, and dipped in honey syrup. Melomakarona are traditionally eaten around Christmas time; one may say they are the Greek equivalent to the British mince pies. As I’m baking melomakarona this year, I’m reflecting on my baking journey. I first started baking 9 years ago, soon after I started my psychiatry training in Leeds. Inspired by the culinary murder mystery novels I was devouring at the time (i.e. ‘Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder’ by Joanne Fluke), I started baking batches of cookies…