Sublime

Historians suggest the first written source of something like a ravioli was in the Liber de Coquina, ‘The book of cooking/cookery’, maybe the oldest medieval cookbook, dated around 1285–1304. Within its appendix is a study of Arab gastronomy from 1100 noting a sambusaj, a triangle of pasta filled with ground meat. This date coincides with the end o

He prepared himself a meal: radishes in a saucer with Maldon salt and grassy olive oil; good rye bread, and red wine poured with the pleasure of a man who’s elected to sin.