Sublime

“When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.” And: “Good cooking is no mystery. You don’t need years of culinary training, or rare and costly foodstuffs, or an encyclopedic knowledge of world cuisines. You need only your own five senses.”

Avocado and feta bash

The whole of the rest of the year is, of course, just a count-down to Christmas.

The strangest thing about all these moral judgements is the aura of scientific certainty in which they are cloaked.

it is a marvellous ingredient, seasoning, binding, giving richness, bringing everything together.

Whatever our innate dispositions, our experience with food can override them.

The extra time that the first prove adds gives a nicer flavour and a beautiful reddish-brown crust.

seemed ravenous.