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French Macarons
The Parisian macaron, with smooth domed shells, ruffled feet and a chewy centre. This uses the more forgiving French…
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Breakfast
Maple Pecan Granola
Oats, nuts and seeds baked slowly in maple and oil until golden, then left completely undisturbed to cool so it sets…
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Breakfast
Açaí Bowl
Frozen açaí pulp blended thick enough to eat with a spoon, topped with granola, banana and honey. Brazilian in…
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Baking
Danish Pastries
Laminated yeast dough folded around cold butter three times, shaped into spandauer and cooked until the layers…
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Healthy
Lemon Herb Quinoa Salad
Quinoa cooked until the germs uncoil, cooled, and tossed with herbs, cucumber, tomato and a sharp lemon dressing…
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Baking
Almond Biscotti
Twice-baked almond biscuits, hard enough to dunk and dry enough to keep for a month. The second bake is what makes…
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Desserts
Affogato
A scoop of cold vanilla gelato with a shot of hot espresso poured over it at the table. Nothing else, and nothing to…
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Healthy
Chia Pudding
Chia seeds left in milk overnight until they swell into a set, tapioca-like pudding. Two ingredients, five minutes…
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Desserts
English Trifle
Sponge soaked in sherry, a layer of fruit, proper custard set over the top and a thick raft of whipped cream. Built…
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Desserts
Rice Kheer
Rice slowly simmered in milk until it thickens and takes on a faint caramel colour, scented with cardamom and…
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Baking
Bakewell Tart
Shortcrust filled with raspberry jam and frangipane, baked until the almond filling is set and golden, and finished…
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Breakfast
Berry Smoothie Bowl
Frozen berries and banana blended with almost no liquid into something thick enough to eat with a spoon, then…
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Desserts
Torta Caprese
A flourless chocolate and almond cake from Capri with a crisp top and a dense, fudgy middle. Naturally gluten-free…
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Dinner
Maqluba
Rice, meat and fried vegetables layered in a pot and flipped out whole at the table so it stands as a cake. The name…
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Desserts
Basbousa
A semolina cake soaked in syrup and cut into diamonds with an almond pressed into each. Found from Egypt to Turkey…
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Holiday Specials
Lamb Mandi
Yemeni lamb steamed over spiced rice until it falls off the bone, then finished with a piece of burning charcoal…
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Dinner
Bobotie
Curried minced beef with dried fruit under a set savoury custard, baked with bay leaves standing in the top. South…
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Healthy
Israeli Couscous Salad
Toasted pearl couscous with roast vegetables, herbs, lemon and a handful of toasted almonds. Good hot, better at…
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Desserts
Gâteau Basque
A thick shortcrust shell around a layer of vanilla pastry cream or black cherry jam, scored across the top before…
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Holiday Specials
Mole Poblano
Puebla's legendary sauce: more than twenty ingredients — chillies, nuts, seeds, spices, dried fruit and chocolate —…
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Desserts
Baked Cinnamon Apples
Apples baked slowly with cinnamon and a splash of orange juice until they collapse into their own syrup. The only…
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Holiday Specials
Vánočka
A nine-strand braided Christmas bread from Bohemia, enriched with butter and egg yolk and studded with rum-soaked…
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Holiday Specials
Christstollen
Dresden Christstollen: a dense fruit bread heavy with rum-soaked fruit and marzipan, buttered and sugared while hot…
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Desserts
Apple Crisp
Sharp apples under a topping of oats, brown sugar and cold butter that bakes to gravel rather than paste. No pastry…
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Holiday Specials
Christmas Pudding
Steamed for six hours, then left to mature for as long as you have. The long steam is what turns a bowl of dried…
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Holiday Specials
Galette des Rois
Two discs of puff pastry around a frangipane, scored in a sunburst and glazed to a mirror. There is a bean hidden…
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Holiday Specials
Panforte di Siena
A flat, dense Sienese slab of nuts, dried fruit and spice held together by nothing but boiled honey and sugar…
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Drinks
Glögg
Swedish mulled wine, served with raisins and blanched almonds in the bottom of the glass and a spoon to eat them…
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Healthy
Roasted Cauliflower Steaks
Thick slabs cut through the core so they hold together, roasted hard until the cut faces caramelise, then dressed…
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Dinner
Sayadieh
Fish poached, set aside, and its stock used to cook rice under a mountain of onions taken almost to black. Tripoli…
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Dinner
Riz a Djaj
Chicken poached with whole spices, its broth used for the rice, the meat pulled and piled back on top with toasted…
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Dinner
Freekeh with Chicken
Green wheat, harvested young and roasted over fire, cooked like a pilaf under poached chicken. It tastes of smoke…
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Desserts
Meghli
A dark spiced rice pudding made to celebrate a birth, soaked in caraway, anise and cinnamon and buried under soaked…
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Desserts
Om Ali
Torn pastry baked in sweetened milk with nuts and coconut until the top blisters and the bottom turns to custard…
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Desserts
Mhalbiya
Rice-flour pudding scented with geranium water rather than rose, which is the Tunisian signature. Set in glasses and…
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Dinner
Marqa Hlouwa
Lamb stewed with quince, prunes and cinnamon into something sweet against the harissa. Made for Eid, and the…
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Desserts
Samsa
Triangles of pastry filled with ground almonds and sesame, fried and soaked in a lemon syrup. Not the Central Asian…
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Desserts
Assidat Zgougou
A dark pudding made from Aleppo pine seed, layered with cream and nuts. Made for the Prophet’s birthday, tastes of…
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Desserts
Masfouf
Couscous steamed and then worked with butter or oil, sugar, raisins and nuts — the sweet version, eaten for…
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Desserts
Tarte Normande
Apples baked into an almond custard in a pastry case, with Calvados. Wetter and richer than a plain apple tart and…
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Desserts
Paris-Brest
A ring of choux split and filled with praline mousseline, made for a bicycle race and shaped like a wheel. The…
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Desserts
Opéra
Six layers: almond sponge soaked in coffee syrup, coffee buttercream, chocolate ganache, repeated, and a poured…
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Desserts
Dacquoise
Discs of nut meringue layered with buttercream. Chewy rather than crisp, which is what separates it from a vacherin.
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Desserts
Pithiviers
Almond cream sealed between two discs of puff pastry, the top scored in curves from the centre. The scoring is what…
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Desserts
Île Flottante
Poached meringue floating on crème anglaise under a thread of caramel. The meringue is poached in milk, not baked.
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Baking
Financiers
Small almond cakes made with brown butter and egg whites, baked hot so the edges crisp. Named for the gold-bar shape…
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Dinner
Busiate al Pesto Trapanese
Trapani's pesto: almonds instead of pine nuts, raw tomato instead of just basil. Made in a mortar and never cooked.
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Baking
Cuccidati
Sicilian fig rolls: a spiced fig, date and nut paste inside a short pastry, cut into little pillows and iced. Made…
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Baking
Torta Sbrisolona
A cake you break rather than cut, sandy with cornmeal and almonds. Mantua has made it since the Gonzagas and it has…
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Baking
Colomba Pasquale
The Easter dove: the same enriched dough as panettone, shaped into wings and armoured in almond crust and pearl…
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Baking
Amaretti Morbidi
Soft almond biscuits, cracked across the top and chewy in the middle. Four ingredients, no flour, and better after a…
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Appetizers
Devils on Horseback
Prunes stuffed with almonds, wrapped in bacon and grilled until it crackles. The savoury that survived, mostly…
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Lunch
Coronation Chicken
Cold chicken in a curried, apricot-sweetened mayonnaise, invented for the 1953 coronation lunch. Ruined by every…
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Desserts
Rhubarb Fool
Roasted rhubarb folded through whipped cream so it stays in ribbons rather than turning the whole thing pink…
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Baking
Dundee Cake
A light fruit cake with almonds arranged in rings on top, and no cherries in it at all. Made with Seville orange…
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Appetizers
Albóndigas
Small pork and beef meatballs in an almond and saffron sauce. A tapas plate, and the sauce is thickened with bread…
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Desserts
Tarta de Santiago
An almond cake with no flour in it, stencilled with the cross of Saint James. Fifty minutes and four ingredients.
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Desserts
Ras Malai
Discs of fresh cheese poached, squeezed and soaked in cardamom and saffron milk. The dessert Bengali sweet shops are…
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Desserts
Kulfi
Milk boiled down by half and frozen hard in moulds. Denser than ice cream because it is never churned.
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Desserts
Falooda
Rose syrup, soaked basil seeds, vermicelli, milk and ice cream layered in a tall glass. Half drink and half pudding.
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Desserts
Shrikhand
Yoghurt hung until it is thick as cream cheese, then beaten with sugar, saffron and cardamom. Fifteen minutes of…
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Desserts
Ghoriba
Almond biscuits rolled thickly in icing sugar so they crack open white as they bake. Chill the dough or they spread.
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Dinner
Mansaf
Lamb cooked in fermented yoghurt, spread over rice and flatbread with toasted nuts. Jordan's national dish, and a…
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Desserts
Besan Ladoo
Gram flour roasted slowly in ghee until it smells of biscuits, then rolled into balls with sugar. Forty minutes…
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Drinks
Thandai
Almonds, melon seeds, pepper and rose ground into cold milk. Holi's drink, and the best thing to hand someone in a…
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