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_43594

Melting 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 & Pete Wilson
Mixing and Sound Design - AJ Traspederme
Production Coordinator - Mica Nepomuceno
Commissioning Editor - Khaliq Meer