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Sep 22
A Turkish? salad - collected or created?
"a thrilling mix of flavours, textures and colours that is almost too glorious to look at." Claudia Roden Geography is what has guided...
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Sep 10
Comfort - a moveable feast
"the ability of a dish to be nostalgic and novel at once - that's at the heart of our interpretation of comfort. In this book we offer...
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Aug 27
Different noodles, different dish
"What matters is balance" - Nigel Slater I began with a dish - Curry mee from Madhur Jaffrey's Far Eastern Cookery - quickly became...
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Jul 22
Peanuts
"Peanuts: something so small it is not worth considering, especially an amount of money" Cambridge dictionary "an insignificant or tiny...
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Jun 1
Beans, toast, an expanding world
"On toast, they are nothing short of sheer culinary genius. They are, I would argue, at their point of perfection when you can catch them...
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May 7
First recipe impact - is it why we buy?
"without naming names, I find that many miss out on the opportunity to sell the casual reader by making your first recipe absolutely...
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Apr 25
Desi or dépaysé - inventing comfort food
"Being the child of an immigrant has its own issues because your identity is so torn." Afreena Islam "Desi: a person of birth or descent...
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Apr 2
Nik Sharma - a new Ottolenghi?
"The goal with recipe writing – and I think this rings true for anyone who works in the food world – is to drive people to try new...
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Mar 24
Noodle burgers
"It's a food born in America that happens to combine two different cultures and makes them exist as one. The perfect symbol of America." ...
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Feb 25
Chaos Cooking - new words for an old thing
"Any food idea that makes you smile is a food idea to be embraced." Erin Shaw/Food Republic "there is no "wrong." Only "try again...
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Aug 31, 2023
The Country captain dispute(s)
"I have yet to find two explanations for the name of this dish that agree!" Madhur Jaffrey Or two recipes that more or less align come...
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May 23, 2023
Italian/American cuisine
"Perhaps the best way to think about the differences between Italian American and authentic Italian is, in the same way, you would...
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Mar 21, 2023
Middle-Eastern then and now
"Fusion is just a way of describing what we are doing today. When you think of the Ottoman Empire, that's exactly what they were doing –...
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Jan 26, 2023
French/Indian - did it happen?
"even while the European powers ruled, none of them had any effect on the basic diet of the local people. Rice, mainly 'boiled' rice ,...
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Dec 6, 2022
Malaysian food
"Roti, roti and more roti!" Granddaughter Abby Yesterday we received some photographs from my daughter-in-law, of the family eating out...
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Nov 11, 2022
The ultimate fusion dish
"It's Japan's chilli, its bacon cheeseburger, its meatloaf and gravy all in one, a hangover-killing man meal found in bars and...
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Oct 18, 2022
Buy this book - now
"good things come to the table, where good things are food things and food things must absolutely be good." Noor Murad/OTK I know. I've...
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Sep 23, 2022
Now what?
“Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.” Eckhart Tolle Is this what holidays are...
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Jul 23, 2022
From Aqua Pazza to Fish poached in charred tomato broth
"There are many different variations of this sauce, from light broths, to thick tomato based sauces, which have been found on all types...
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