Jay Behrouzi believes food is the best medicine for homesickness so she heads to Northern Ireland to cook a family favourite with Belfast Giants' Bo Hanson. He shares why his 'goopy' turkey lasagne keeps him close to North America. Resident scientist Big Manny shows off his biochemist chops and explains how comfort food triggers brain chemicals that give us our insides a warm hug!Here’s Jay’s version of this Turkey Spinach Ricotta lasagne: 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/turkey_spinach_and_43594Melting Pot is a BBC Audio North production for BBC Sounds Audio Lab.Written and produced by Jay Behrouzi
Resident scientist - Big Manny
Supervising producer - Richard McIlroy
Executive producers - Gill Farrington &amp; Pete Wilson
Mixing and Sound Design - AJ Traspederme
Production Coordinator - Mica Nepomuceno
Commissioning Editor - Khaliq Meer

4. Salad, Soup & Sauce

The Maillard Reaction, osmosis, emulsion... Cooking is chemistry done every day. Jay Behrouzi and Big Manny lift the lid on the science behind some of her favourite dishes.Across this six-part series; we visit the kitchens of British-Filipino chef Rex De Guzman's and actress Bangs Garcia. Conversations features Iranian chef Kazem Ashourzadeh to American ice hockey player Bo Hanson. And we rub shoulders with private chef Nelson Reposo as well as the Mancunian Baker behind Mr Manakeesh.Welcome to the culinary delights of a migrant’s Melting Pot in the UK.