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Muffuletta - first make your giardiniera
"Anybody who doesn't include the muffuletta in their list of the Five Most Important Sandwiches In The History Of Life, the Universe, and...
May 14, 2023
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Green herbs, chicken and Madhur Jaffrey
"It is divine: rich, sophisticated, flavourful, ultra-curry but with a delicate complexity unknown to most who have not tried real...
May 11, 2023
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Half a jar of sauerkraut
“When life gives you cabbage, prepare sauerkraut.” popular saying Sauerkraut is extremely fashionable at the moment - all that...
May 9, 2023
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A book and a cook
"I'm sure I'm not the only one who has wondered what an Indian salad could look and taste like." Meera Sodha I've been flicking through...
May 5, 2023
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The dream of Tuscany
"Toscana has been the region of the last decade (or two). Everyone outside Italy wants to live there, and just about every other person...
May 3, 2023
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Knafeh
The picture above is from the latest Coles Magazine and featured in their Cooking Club segment - in which one of the' ordinary' people...
Apr 16, 2023
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Italian yum cha
"Arrive early, appoint a leader and say yes ... maybe that’s all one needs to know about yum cha. The food comes around: you say yes or...
Apr 14, 2023
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Spam - yes spam
"the ham that failed its physical" American troops WW2 The human animal is a creative soul is it not? Also very adaptive. It can make...
Apr 10, 2023
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Psarasoupa me avgolemono
"Avgolemono is just so important to Greeks. But maybe it's even more important to Greeks who've left Greece." Simon Gloftis I haven't...
Apr 2, 2023
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I began with scaccia and almost ended with quiche
"Essentially, what they all share is the principle that behind a perfectly ordinary piece of pastry that looks nothing special on the...
Mar 12, 2023
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German food - is it really that bad?
"During the last 50 years that nation has changed more than any other in Western Europe. Yet it has remained German, because everything...
Feb 27, 2023
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In the middle of France is Berry
"a province unharmed by too many visitors in spite of the reputation of Georges Sand, Alain Fournier and Bourges Cathedral - and of the...
Feb 9, 2023
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Nostalgia and the 'caff'
"I’m really genuinely terrified that we are losing for ever the caff. And I mean that very specifically: the caff not the cafe ......
Jan 29, 2023
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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 ,...
Jan 26, 2023
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First recipe, first book
"The only way to eat superb Indian food, with a guarantee of variety, quality and freshness of ingredients, is to learn to cook it for...
Jan 2, 2023
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Malaysian food
"Roti, roti and more roti!" Granddaughter Abby Yesterday we received some photographs from my daughter-in-law, of the family eating out...
Dec 6, 2022
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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...
Nov 11, 2022
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How we discovered Middle Eastern Food
"It is the fruit of nostalgic longing for, and delighted savouring of, food that was the constant joy of life in a world so different...
Oct 24, 2022
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Chutney - especially mango
"What the British did was just simplify and standardise what seemed like a general Indian trend." Madhur Jaffrey This is Delia's version...
Oct 7, 2022
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National cuisines and in defence of the English one
"A tapestry and patchwork quilt that embraces the best of the old traditions as well as the newer additions to our repertoire, which are...
Sep 2, 2022
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