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Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Brown butter, a 24-hour rest and two sizes of chocolate produce cookies with crisp edges, a chewy middle and pools…
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Fluffy Buttermilk Pancakes
Tall, tender pancakes with a tangy edge and a golden, even surface. The lumps in the batter are not a mistake — they…
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Desserts
Classic Tiramisu
The Venetian classic, built on a properly cooked zabaglione so it sets firm without gelatine and carries no raw-egg…
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Desserts
Fudgy Cocoa Brownies
Cocoa-based brownies with a paper-thin crackly top and a dense, fudgy middle. No chocolate to melt, no mixer needed…
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One-Bowl Banana Bread
One bowl, one whisk, and the darkest bananas you can find. Browning the butter first adds a nutty depth that turns…
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Dinner
Spaghetti Carbonara
Real Roman carbonara has no cream in it — just eggs, Pecorino, guanciale and black pepper emulsified into a glossy…
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Dinner
Pad Thai
The real thing is sour, salty and only lightly sweet — a world away from the ketchup-orange version. Tamarind, palm…
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Desserts
New York Cheesecake
Dense, tall and creamy with a faint tang, on a buttery biscuit base. The water bath and a slow cool in the…
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Dinner
Katsu Curry
A breaded cutlet sliced over rice and flooded with Japanese curry sauce — thicker, sweeter and darker than an Indian…
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Dinner
German Pork Schnitzel
Pork loin beaten thin, breadcrumbed and fried in a shallow pool of butter and oil so the coating puffs away from the…
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Breakfast
Shakshuka
Eggs poached in a smoky, cumin-scented pepper and tomato sauce, served straight from the pan with bread for…
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Dinner
Tonkotsu Ramen
The milky, collagen-heavy pork broth that made Hakata famous, boiled hard for eight hours until the fat and gelatine…
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Overnight Cinnamon Rolls
Soft, tall rolls made with a tangzhong starter that keeps them pillowy for days, filled with cinnamon-butter and…
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Desserts
Deep-Dish Apple Pie
A deep-dish pie with a properly crisp bottom crust and apples that hold their shape. Pre-cooking the filling is the…
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Quick Meals
Egg Fried Rice
The test of any wok cook: separate grains, wisps of egg through every mouthful, and that faint smoky note from the…
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Desserts
Molten Chocolate Lava Cake
Individual chocolate cakes with a liquid centre, from oven to table in twenty minutes. The whole trick is pulling…
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Dinner
Lasagna Bolognese
A proper lasagne alla Bolognese is a study in patience: a three-hour ragù, a nutmeg-scented besciamella and…
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Dinner
Orange Chicken
The most ordered dish in American Chinese restaurants: craggy fried chicken tossed in a bright, sticky sauce built…
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Desserts
Crème Brûlée
A vanilla custard so smooth it barely holds a spoon, under a sheet of caramel thin enough to crack with a tap. The…
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Lunch
Caesar Salad
The original Tijuana Caesar: whole romaine leaves, a dressing built on egg yolk, anchovy and garlic, and croutons…
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Dinner
Chicken Katsu Curry
Japan's favourite comfort food: a panko-crusted chicken cutlet sliced over rice and flooded with a thick, gently…
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Desserts
Tres Leches Cake
A light sponge soaked in three milks until it is completely saturated yet somehow not soggy, topped with softly…
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Breakfast
Brioche French Toast
Thick brioche soaked long enough to reach the centre, cooked slowly so the custard sets rather than scrambles. It is…
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Dinner
Kung Pao Chicken
Sichuan's most travelled dish, done properly: velveted chicken, blistered dried chillies, the numbing buzz of…
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Breakfast
Three-Egg Omelette
Three eggs, butter, and about ninety seconds. The French rolled style has no colour at all and a barely-set centre…
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Dinner
Chicken Parmigiana
Shatteringly crisp breaded cutlets under a thin blanket of sauce and mozzarella, grilled just long enough to melt…
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Desserts
Pastéis de Nata
Lisbon's custard tarts: laminated pastry shells filled with a loose cinnamon custard and blasted in a furnace-hot…
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Breakfast
Belgian Waffles
Yeast-raised Brussels waffles: tall, rectangular, crisp on the outside and hollow-light inside, dusted with icing…
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Baking
Butter Croissants
Genuinely laminated croissants with a honeycomb interior and a shattering shell — 27 layers of butter folded into…
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Dinner
Chicken Pot Pie
Chicken and vegetables in a velvety sauce under an all-butter pastry lid that shatters when you break through it…
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Baking
Bakery-Style Blueberry Muffins
Tall domed muffins with a crunchy sugar top and berries that stay suspended rather than sinking. The high-then-low…
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Dinner
Bibimbap
A bowl of rice topped with individually seasoned vegetables, marinated beef, a fried egg and gochujang, mixed…
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Dinner
Miso Ramen
Sapporo-style ramen: a miso tare whisked into rich pork or chicken broth, stir-fried pork and vegetables piled on…
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Japanese Milk Bread (Shokupan)
Shokupan: the pillowy square loaf found in every Japanese bakery, built on a cooked flour paste that lets the dough…
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Desserts
Cinnamon Churros
Ridged, crackling churros dusted in cinnamon sugar with a pot of dark chocolate for dipping. The dough is a simple…
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Vanilla Cupcakes
Light vanilla cupcakes with a flat-ish top for frosting, made by the reverse-creaming method that coats the flour in…
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Garlic Naan
A yoghurt-enriched flatbread slapped onto the wall of a tandoor, or in a home kitchen onto the underside of the…
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Breakfast
Eggs Benedict
Poached eggs and ham on a toasted muffin under a blanket of hollandaise. The sauce is the whole game, and the…
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Dinner
Shepherd's Pie
Lamb mince in a rich gravy under a piped mash with crisp golden ridges. Made with beef it is a cottage pie; the…
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Desserts
Red Velvet Cake
A tender buttermilk cake with a whisper of cocoa, a tang from vinegar and buttermilk, and a proper cream cheese…
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Dinner
General Tso's Chicken
The Chinese-American classic: crackling battered chicken in a sticky, tangy, faintly sweet sauce with a lick of…
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Breakfast
Crisp Belgian-Style Waffles
Waffles with a crisp, deeply grooved shell and a light, almost hollow interior. Cornflour and whipped egg whites do…
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Cinnamon Sugar Doughnuts
Yeasted doughnuts fried until they wear a pale band around the middle, then rolled straight into cinnamon sugar…
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Desserts
Spiced Carrot Cake
A properly spiced carrot cake, moist from oil and crushed pineapple, with walnuts for bite and a tangy cream cheese…
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Holiday Specials
Roast Beef and Yorkshire Puddings
A rib of beef roasted to a rosy centre, rested properly, and carved thick, with Yorkshire puddings risen tall in…
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Adjaruli Khachapuri
A boat of bread filled with molten cheese, with an egg yolk and a knob of butter dropped in at the end and stirred…
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Breakfast
Nasi Lemak
Rice steamed in coconut milk with pandan, served with sambal, fried anchovies and peanuts, cucumber and a boiled or…
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Classic Pumpkin Pie
A silky custard pie with proper spice and a blind-baked base that stays crisp. Cooking the purée down first…
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Dinner
Swedish Meatballs
Small, tender meatballs in a creamy pan gravy, served with lingonberry jam and mashed potato. The bread-and-cream…
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Desserts
Vanilla Gelato
Proper Italian gelato: less fat, less air and served warmer than ice cream, which is why it tastes so much more…
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Quick Meals
Tomato and Egg Stir-Fry
The dish every Chinese household cooks and no restaurant bothers to: eggs scrambled soft, tomatoes cooked down to a…
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Breakfast
Chilaquiles Verdes
Fried tortilla chips simmered briefly in salsa verde until they soften at the edges but keep a bite at the centre…
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Snickerdoodles
Soft, cracked sugar cookies rolled in cinnamon sugar, with a distinctive tang from cream of tartar. Without the…
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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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Pavlova
A meringue with a crisp shell and a soft marshmallow middle, baked low, cooled slowly in the oven, and topped with…
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Deviled Eggs
Hard-boiled eggs halved, the yolks whipped smooth with mayonnaise and mustard and piped back in. The most reliably…
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English Scones
Tall, straight-sided scones that split cleanly by hand rather than needing a knife. Cold butter, a light hand and a…
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Desserts
Flan Napolitano
A dense, cream-cheese-enriched custard baked over caramel and turned out so the syrup floods down the sides. Denser…
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Baking
Lemon Drizzle Cake
A plain loaf cake pierced all over while still hot and drenched in lemon and sugar, which soaks in and then sets…
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Dinner
Sweet and Sour Pork
Cantonese gu lou yuk with a genuinely crisp coating and a sauce balanced by real pineapple and rice vinegar rather…
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Desserts
Japanese Cotton Cheesecake
The jiggly cotton cheesecake — somewhere between a soufflé and a sponge, barely sweet, and impossibly light. It…
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Dinner
Sesame Chicken
Orange chicken's darker, nuttier sibling: the same shattering fried crust in a soy and honey glaze thickened with…
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Baking
Peanut Butter Cookies
Dense, sandy peanut butter cookies with the fork-crosshatch pressed into the top. That pattern is not decoration —…
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Desserts
Sticky Toffee Pudding
A dark, date-sweetened sponge drenched in toffee sauce and served with cream. Blitzing the dates into a purée is…
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Lunch
Quiche Lorraine
The original quiche has no cheese in it, and once you taste this custard — barely set, heavy on cream, studded with…
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Quick Meals
Pad Kra Pao (Thai Basil Chicken)
Thailand's most-eaten dish: minced pork fried hard with garlic and chillies, tossed with holy basil, and served over…
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Sicilian Cannoli
Blistered fried shells filled to order with sweetened sheep's-milk ricotta and candied peel. Filling them any…
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Pecan Pie
A dense, chewy custard of eggs, syrup and butter under a layer of toasted pecans, in a blind-baked shell…
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Victoria Sponge
Two golden sponge layers with jam and cream between, dusted with caster sugar. Named for a queen who took it with…
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Nasi Goreng
Indonesian fried rice built on kecap manis and terasi, topped with a fried egg and prawn crackers. Every household…
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Lunch
Tortilla Española
Potatoes and onion confited slowly in olive oil, then bound in egg and cooked until the centre is barely set and…
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Dinner
Pork Schnitzel
Pounded thin, breaded loosely and fried in a generous amount of fat so the coating puffs away from the meat. That…
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Dinner
Cottage Pie
Minced beef in a rich gravy under a mash topping forked into ridges and browned. Cottage pie is beef; shepherd's pie…
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Pão de Queijo
Brazilian cheese breads made from tapioca starch scalded with hot milk and oil, giving a crisp shell and a chewy…
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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
Breakfast Hash
Potatoes fried until properly crusted, then peppers, onions and whatever else is in the fridge, with eggs cracked in…
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Baking
Skillet Cornbread
Batter poured into a screaming hot skillet of bacon fat, which sets a crust the instant it hits. The Southern style…
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Desserts
Key Lime Pie
Sharp, silky lime custard in a buttery graham crust, set by nothing but the chemical reaction between lime juice and…
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Baking
Brioche Loaf
The richest bread in the French repertoire: a dough carrying half its weight in butter, worked until it is silky…
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Holiday Specials
Gingerbread Cookies
Cut-out gingerbread that holds a sharp edge, tastes strongly of spice and molasses, and stays chewy rather than…
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Dinner
Steak and Ale Pie
Beef shin braised in dark ale until it falls apart, under a lid of rough puff pastry baked until the top is…
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Appetizers
Belgian Frites
Fried twice in beef dripping — once low to cook, once hot to crisp — and served in a paper cone with mayonnaise.
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Appetizers
Taiwanese Popcorn Chicken
Marinated chicken chunks coated in sweet potato starch, fried twice, and tossed with salt, white pepper and fried…
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Drinks
Pisco Sour
Pisco, lime, sugar syrup and egg white shaken hard twice, poured over a fine foam and finished with three drops of…
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Breakfast
Chicken and Waffles
Buttermilk-brined fried chicken on a yeasted waffle, with hot sauce and maple syrup poured over both. Sweet, salt…
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Appetizers
Beef Empanadas
Argentinian empanadas with a juicy, gently spiced beef filling, olives and egg, baked in a short pastry that stays…
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Lunch
Kimbap
Seasoned rice and a row of cooked fillings rolled in seaweed, brushed with sesame oil and cut into coins. Korea's…
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Dinner
Curry Laksa
Curry laksa: a coconut and spice paste soup with two kinds of noodle, prawns, tofu puffs and cockles, finished with…
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Baking
Kanelbullar
Swedish cinnamon buns scented with cardamom, twisted into knots rather than rolled into spirals, and finished with…
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Breakfast
Full English Breakfast
Sausages, bacon, eggs, black pudding, mushrooms, tomatoes, beans and toast, all arriving hot at the same moment. The…
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Appetizers
Mozzarella Sticks
Batons of low-moisture mozzarella double-breaded and frozen solid before frying, so the crust sets before the cheese…
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Desserts
Lemon Meringue Pie
Sharp lemon curd in a crisp shell under a cloud of meringue browned at the tips. Three components, three ways to go…
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Dinner
Classic Meatloaf
A meatloaf that slices cleanly and stays moist, built on a panade and free-formed on a tray rather than steamed in a…
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Baking
Bavarian Soft Pretzels
Chewy, deep-mahogany Bavarian pretzels with a distinct alkaline tang, from a food-grade lye or baking soda bath…
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Desserts
Profiteroles
Choux buns filled with cold vanilla cream and drowned in hot dark chocolate sauce. The temperature contrast is the…
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Quick Meals
Oyakodon
Chicken and egg over rice — the name means "parent and child" — simmered together in a sweet-savoury dashi until the…
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Dinner
Chicken Kiev
A chicken breast wrapped around a core of garlic and herb butter, breadcrumbed and fried so the butter is still…
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Desserts
Hong Kong Egg Tarts
Hong Kong dim sum tarts with a short, biscuity crust and a wobbling, barely-set custard that should be smooth and…
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Dinner
Gnocchi alla Sorrentina
Potato gnocchi baked under tomato sauce and mozzarella until the top blisters and the cheese pulls. From the…
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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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Breakfast
Loaded Breakfast Burrito
Soft scrambled eggs, crisp potatoes, sausage and cheese rolled tight in a griddled tortilla. Built properly it holds…
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Quick Meals
Tteokbokki
Chewy rice cakes simmered in a sweet-hot gochujang sauce until it clings. Korea's favourite street snack, and it…
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Lunch
Classic Potato Salad
Waxy potatoes dressed while still warm so they drink in the vinegar, then finished cold with mayonnaise, celery, egg…
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Quick Meals
Pad See Ew
Wide rice noodles charred in a screaming wok with dark soy, egg and Chinese broccoli. The dish is defined by wok…
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Dinner
Moussaka
Layers of roasted aubergine, spiced lamb ragù and a thick béchamel enriched with egg yolks and kefalotyri, baked…
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Dinner
Potato and Cheese Pierogi
Tender dumplings filled with potato and farmer's cheese, boiled and then fried in butter with onions. A weekend…
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Desserts
Eton Mess
Crushed meringue, whipped cream and macerated strawberries folded together fifteen minutes before serving. Reputedly…
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Dinner
Sundubu Jjigae
Silken tofu stew, arriving at the table in a stone pot still boiling violently, with a raw egg cracked in at the…
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Desserts
Alfajores
Two cornflour-heavy shortbread biscuits sandwiching dulce de leche and rolled in desiccated coconut. Argentinian and…
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Desserts
Sachertorte
Dense chocolate sponge split and layered with apricot jam, then coated in a poured chocolate glaze that sets to a…
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Dinner
Chicken Paprikash
Chicken braised in a sauce of onions and a great deal of sweet Hungarian paprika, finished with soured cream and…
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Dinner
Tahdig
The golden crust at the bottom of the rice pot, made deliberately: parboiled basmati steamed over a layer of yoghurt…
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Appetizers
Jamón Croquetas
A very thick béchamel studded with jamón, chilled overnight, rolled, crumbed and fried so the outside is crisp and…
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Dinner
Lu Rou Fan
Finely diced pork belly braised in soy, five spice and fried shallots until it becomes a glossy, gelatinous sauce…
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Dinner
Milanesa Napolitana
A breaded beef cutlet topped with ham, tomato sauce and melted cheese — Buenos Aires by way of Milan, and eaten with…
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Appetizers
Maryland Crab Cakes
Maryland crab cakes are mostly crab: just enough binder to hold them, Old Bay for seasoning, and a grill rather than…
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Baking
Madeleines
Proust's shell-shaped tea cakes, with the crisp browned edge and the hump on the back that tells you the batter was…
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Healthy
Cobb Salad
A composed salad from the Brown Derby in Hollywood: neat rows of chicken, bacon, avocado, egg, tomato and blue…
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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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Dinner
Chicken Fried Steak
Tenderised beef, double-dredged and fried like chicken, under a peppery milk gravy made in the same pan. Texas…
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Quick Meals
Gyudon
Thinly sliced beef and onion simmered for four minutes in dashi, soy and mirin, then tipped over rice. Japan's…
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Desserts
Black Forest Cake
Chocolate sponge soaked in kirsch, layered with sour cherries and unsweetened whipped cream, finished with chocolate…
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Desserts
Crêpes Suzette
Paper-thin crêpes folded into an orange-caramel butter sauce and flambéed at the table with Grand Marnier. A piece…
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Dinner
Singapore Noodles
Thin rice vermicelli stained yellow with curry powder, tossed with prawns, char siu and egg. Despite the name it is…
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Appetizers
Coxinha
Shredded chicken and cream cheese wrapped in a dough made from chicken stock and flour, shaped like a teardrop…
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Holiday Specials
Beef Wellington
Fillet of beef wrapped in mushroom duxelles and prosciutto, encased in puff pastry and baked until the pastry is…
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Desserts
Boston Cream Pie
Not a pie at all — two layers of sponge with vanilla pastry cream between them and a chocolate glaze poured over the…
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Desserts
Stroopwafels
Two paper-thin waffle discs split apart while hot and glued back together with hot caramel syrup. Best eaten…
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Dinner
Chicken Milanese
Chicken breast beaten thin, breaded and fried in butter until the crust is deep gold. Milanese in method, and the…
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Appetizers
Scotch Eggs
Soft-boiled eggs wrapped in seasoned sausage meat, breadcrumbed and fried until the crust is deep gold and the yolk…
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Lunch
Omurice
A Japanese diner classic: ketchup-seasoned chicken rice wrapped in a thin omelette, either folded neatly or, in the…
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Dinner
Toad in the Hole
Sausages baked in Yorkshire pudding batter until the sides climb the tin and the whole thing arrives dramatically…
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Lunch
Jamaican Beef Patty
A flaky turmeric-yellow pastry folded around spiced beef filling, crimped and baked until the edges are crisp and…
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Quick Meals
Thai Pineapple Fried Rice
Fried rice with pineapple, cashews and a curry-scented edge, served in the hollowed shell if you are feeling…
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Dinner
Potato Gnocchi with Sage Butter
Pillowy potato gnocchi that float rather than sink, dressed in nothing more than nut-brown butter and crisped sage…
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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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Breakfast
Tamagoyaki
Sweet rolled omelette built from a dozen thin layers, cooked in a rectangular pan and rolled onto itself again 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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Dinner
Char Kway Teow
Flat rice noodles fried at ferocious heat with prawns, Chinese sausage, cockles, egg and chives. Judged entirely on…
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Dinner
Käsespätzle
Soft egg noodles scraped straight into boiling water, then layered with grated cheese and topped with fried onions…
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Quick Meals
Corn Dogs
Hot dogs on sticks dipped in a sweet cornmeal batter and deep fried until the coating is crisp and hollow-sounding…
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Lunch
Hot and Sour Soup
Sharp with black vinegar, hot with white pepper rather than chilli, and thickened to that distinctive silky body…
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Dinner
Sukiyaki
A hot pot cooked at the table: thin beef seared in a heavy iron pan, then simmered in a sweet soy warishita with…
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Appetizers
Chả Giò
Vietnamese fried spring rolls wrapped in rice paper rather than wheat wrappers, which gives a blistered, bubbly…
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Breakfast
Huevos Rancheros
Fried eggs on crisped tortillas under a warm, smoky ranchero sauce, with black beans and avocado. The Mexican…
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Appetizers
Spanakopita
Spinach and feta between shattering layers of filo, brushed generously with olive oil and butter. The trick is…
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Breakfast
Menemen
Turkish scrambled eggs cooked slowly into a base of peppers and tomatoes until just set — soft, saucy and eaten…
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Desserts
Cherry Clafoutis
A Limousin dessert somewhere between a flan and a pancake: cherries dropped into a loose batter and baked until it…
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Lunch
Cornish Pasty
Beef skirt, potato, swede and onion, all raw, sealed in shortcrust and baked for nearly an hour so everything cooks…
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Appetizers
Crispy Vegetable Tempura
Tempura batter should be lumpy, ice-cold and barely mixed — everything you would consider wrong in any other batter…
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Desserts
Bread and Butter Pudding
Buttered bread layered with raisins, soaked in vanilla custard and baked until the peaks are crisp and the middle is…
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Baking
Panettone
The Milanese Christmas bread: a sweet, heavily enriched dough proved three times over two days, studded with candied…
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Dinner
Doro Wat
Ethiopia's national dish: chicken stewed in an enormous quantity of onions cooked down without any fat, then built…
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Desserts
Chocolate Éclairs
Crisp choux shells, split and piped full of vanilla crème pâtissière, capped with a dark chocolate glaze that sets…
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Dinner
Kottu Roti
Godamba roti chopped on a hot griddle with vegetables, egg and curry, in a rhythm of metal blades that you can hear…
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Desserts
Mille-Feuille
Three sheets of caramelised puff pastry alternating with crème pâtissière, topped with the marbled feathered icing…
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Dinner
Pastitsio
Greek baked pasta: tubes of bucatini standing on end under spiced lamb and a thick béchamel set with egg and cheese…
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Appetizers
Haemul Pajeon
A large, shaggy pancake of spring onions and seafood, fried until the edges are lacy and crisp. Eaten on rainy days…
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Baking
Canelés de Bordeaux
A Bordeaux pastry with a black, almost burnt caramel shell and a soft, custardy centre shot through with rum and…
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Baking
Philadelphia Soft Pretzels
Philadelphia pretzels are oblong rather than fat, chewy rather than fluffy, sold in rows stuck together and eaten…
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Baking
Lamingtons
Squares of day-old butter sponge dipped in thin chocolate icing and rolled in desiccated coconut, sometimes split…
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Desserts
Chocolate Soufflé
A soufflé that rises two inches above the ramekin and stays up long enough to reach the table, with a molten centre…
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Appetizers
Cheese Börek
Layers of filo or yufka with a feta and parsley filling, rolled into coils or layered in a tray and baked until…
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Appetizers
Takoyaki
Osaka's street-food icon: molten batter spheres with a nugget of octopus at the centre, turned with a skewer in a…
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Holiday Specials
Olivier Salad
Diced potato, carrot, egg, pickle and ham bound in mayonnaise. Known as Russian salad almost everywhere else, and…
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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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Desserts
Dorayaki
Two honey-sweetened pancakes sandwiching a layer of sweet red bean paste — Doraemon's favourite food and a Japanese…
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Baking
Castella Cake
A honey sponge with an astonishingly fine, moist crumb and a dark top, baked in a wooden frame. Portuguese…
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Lunch
Smørrebrød
Dense rye bread, buttered to the edges, built up with one main topping and a short list of things that agree with…
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Dinner
Pelmeni
Small Siberian dumplings with a thin wheat wrapper and a raw meat filling, boiled and eaten with soured cream…
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Lunch
Sabich
Pitta stuffed with fried aubergine, boiled egg, hummus, salad, pickles, amba and a great deal of tahini…
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Desserts
Martabak Manis
A thick, spongy pancake with a honeycomb surface, cooked in a heavy pan, then split and filled with butter…
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Breakfast
Loco Moco
Rice, a hamburger patty, brown gravy and a fried egg, stacked in that order. Hawaii's answer to a plate lunch, and…
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Desserts
Pots de Crème
Small pots of dark chocolate custard, baked in a bain-marie until barely set and eaten cold with a spoon. Three…
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Lunch
Salade Niçoise
A composed salad, not a tossed one: each element dressed and arranged separately so every forkful is deliberate…
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Breakfast
Century Egg Congee
Rice cooked in eight times its volume of stock until the grains collapse into a silken porridge, served with century…
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Desserts
Kaiserschmarrn
A thick sweet pancake torn into pieces in the pan, caramelised in butter and sugar and served in a heap with plum…
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Breakfast
Merguez Shakshuka
Merguez browned first, then eggs poached in a tomato and pepper sauce built on harissa and caraway. Hotter and…
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Desserts
Crema Catalana
A cornflour-set custard flavoured with lemon and cinnamon, chilled in shallow dishes and burnt under a hot iron just…
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Healthy
Avgolemono Soup
A silky Greek chicken and rice soup thickened with an egg and lemon emulsion rather than cream. Sharp, restorative…
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Appetizers
Greek Keftedes
Greek meatballs bound with bread soaked in wine, scented with mint and oregano, and fried until dark. Eaten hot with…
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Baking
Turkish Pide
Boat-shaped flatbreads with the edges rolled and pinched around a filling of spiced lamb or cheese and egg, baked…
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Healthy
Salmorejo
Córdoba's thicker, richer answer to gazpacho: tomatoes, bread, garlic and a great deal of olive oil blended into a…
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Dinner
Cơm Tấm
Broken rice with a marinated grilled pork chop, shredded pork skin, a steamed egg meatloaf and a fried egg, all…
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Lunch
Kake Udon Noodle Soup
Thick, bouncy udon in a clear kake broth of dashi, soy and mirin — restorative, restrained and on the table in…
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Healthy
Gado-Gado
Blanched and raw vegetables, tofu, tempeh and boiled egg under a warm peanut sauce, with prawn crackers on top…
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Breakfast
Blini with Soured Cream
Small yeasted buckwheat pancakes, thicker and more savoury than a crêpe, served warm with soured cream and whatever…
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Dinner
Blanquette de Veau
France's great white stew: veal poached with aromatics, the broth turned into a velouté enriched with cream and egg…
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Desserts
Galaktoboureko
Semolina custard baked between layers of filo and drenched in cold syrup the moment it leaves the oven. The…
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Dinner
Ají de Gallina
Shredded chicken in a creamy, mildly spicy sauce thickened with bread and walnuts, coloured yellow by ají amarillo…
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Dinner
Gołąbki
Cabbage leaves rolled around pork, beef and rice, then braised in tomato until the leaves are soft enough to cut…
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Appetizers
Bitterballen
A stiff beef ragout chilled solid, rolled into balls, breadcrumbed and deep fried until the outside is crisp and the…
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Desserts
Prinsesstårta
Sponge, raspberry jam, pastry cream and a great dome of whipped cream, all wrapped in a sheet of green marzipan with…
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Dinner
Francesinha
Porto's sandwich: steak, sausage and ham between bread, wrapped in melted cheese and flooded with a beer and tomato…
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Baking
Pineapple Cake
Buttery shortbread cases filled with a firm, slightly tart pineapple and winter melon jam, baked in small square…
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Breakfast
Egg Hoppers
Fermented rice and coconut batter swirled up the sides of a small bowl-shaped pan, with an egg cracked into the…
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Lunch
Soto Ayam
Indonesian turmeric chicken soup with a fragrant spice paste, served over noodles and rice with sambal, fried…
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Dinner
Bandeja Paisa
The Antioquian platter: beans, rice, chicharrón, chorizo, minced beef, a fried egg, plantain, avocado and an arepa…
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Dinner
Shui Zhu Fish
White fish poached in a chilli and Sichuan pepper broth, buried under dried chillies and garlic, and finished by…
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Quick Meals
Welsh Rarebit
A thick, savoury cheese sauce spiked with mustard, ale and Worcestershire, spread on toast and grilled until…
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Healthy
Mul Naengmyeon
Chewy buckwheat noodles in an icy beef and radish broth, with pear, cucumber, sliced beef and half a boiled egg. The…
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Dinner
Osaka Okonomiyaki
The Osaka savoury pancake — cabbage bound with a dashi batter, griddled thick, then covered in sweet-sharp sauce…
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Dinner
Bacalhau à Brás
Salt cod shredded and folded through straw-thin fried potatoes and softly scrambled egg. Named after a Lisbon tavern…
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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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Desserts
Zeppole
Choux buns fried rather than baked, split and filled with pastry cream, and topped with an amarena cherry. Made for…
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Dinner
Chapli Kebab
Flat Peshawari patties of coarse beef with tomato, pomegranate seed and coriander seed, shallow fried in beef fat…
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Desserts
Malva Pudding
A sticky apricot jam sponge with a hot cream and butter sauce poured over it the moment it leaves the oven, so it…
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Dinner
Buta no Kakuni
Pork belly simmered for two and a half hours in dashi, soy and sake until a chopstick passes through it without…
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Desserts
Trdelník
Sweet dough wound around a wooden spit, rolled in sugar and nuts and turned over coals until the outside caramelises…
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Appetizers
Causa Limeña
Cold layers of yellow potato mashed with lime and ají amarillo, packed around a chicken or crab filling and turned…
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Appetizers
Sicilian Arancini
Sicilian rice balls with a molten mozzarella and ragù heart, breadcrumbed and fried until they shatter…
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Desserts
Poffertjes
Tiny yeasted buckwheat pancakes cooked in a dimpled pan, served in a heap with a lump of butter melting over them…
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Appetizers
Vitello Tonnato
Cold poached veal under a sauce of tuna, anchovy and capers blended into mayonnaise. It sounds wrong on paper and is…
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Lunch
Salade Lyonnaise
Bitter leaves, a hot bacon dressing poured over so they half-wilt, croutons fried in the same fat, and a poached egg…
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Dinner
Lion's Head Meatballs
Enormous pork meatballs braised in a light broth with cabbage, so tender they barely hold together. From Huaiyang…
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Dinner
Frikadeller
Danish pork and veal meatballs, flattened into ovals and fried in butter until brown on both sides, served with…
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Appetizers
Chawanmushi
A savoury egg custard steamed in a lidded cup, holding prawn, chicken and ginkgo nuts suspended in a set so delicate…
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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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Breakfast
Boxty
Half raw grated potato, half mash, bound with flour and buttermilk and fried into pancakes with crisp edges and a…
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Dinner
Marseille Bouillabaisse
Marseille's great fisherman's stew: a saffron and fennel broth built from the bones and heads, poured over firm…
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Lunch
Żurek
Sour rye soup made from a fermented starter, with white sausage, potatoes, marjoram and a halved boiled egg…
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Dinner
Pastel de Choclo
A beef and chicken filling under a thick layer of ground fresh corn and basil, baked in earthenware and sprinkled…
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Baking
Bara Brith
Dried fruit soaked overnight in strong tea, then folded into a spiced batter and baked into a dense, dark loaf eaten…
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Baking
Karelian Pies
Thin rye shells crimped around a rice porridge filling, baked hot and brushed with melted butter, then topped with…
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Appetizers
Tunisian Brik
A sheet of malsouka pastry folded around tuna, capers, parsley and a whole raw egg, then deep fried so the yolk is…
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Desserts
Krumkake
Thin, crisp waffle cones pressed in a patterned iron and rolled around a wooden cone while still hot. Filled with…
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Breakfast
Cottage Cheese Protein Pancakes
Pancakes bound with cottage cheese and eggs rather than mostly flour, sweetened by nothing but a ripe banana, and…
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Breakfast
Banana Oat Pancakes
Pancakes made from oats, eggs and a very ripe banana, with no sugar, syrup or flour — soft in the middle and…
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Breakfast
Egg and Cottage Cheese Muffins
Baked egg muffins bound with cottage cheese and packed with spinach and cheddar — six to a batch, 42 g of protein a…
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Lunch
Chicken Caesar Lettuce Cups
Caesar without the croutons: chicken breast seared hard, tossed in an anchovy and Parmesan dressing and served in…
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Breakfast
Smoked Salmon Scrambled Eggs
Eggs scrambled slowly over low heat until barely set, with smoked salmon folded in off the heat and plenty of dill —…
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Lunch
Seared Tuna Niçoise
Tuna steak seared rare, over green beans, egg, olives and tomato with an anchovy vinaigrette — the Niçoise without…
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Dinner
Chicken Cauliflower Fried Rice
Cauliflower blitzed to rice grains and fried hard with chicken thigh, egg and spring onion — the wok dish without…
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Breakfast
Baked Eggs with Spinach and Feta
Eggs baked into a bed of garlicky spinach with feta crumbled over, straight from oven to table in the pan — 34 g of…
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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
Julekake
Norwegian Christmas bread scented heavily with cardamom and full of candied peel and raisins — softer and less sweet…
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Holiday Specials
Joulutorttu
Finnish Christmas stars: rough puff pastry pinwheels folded round a spoonful of dark prune jam, dusted with icing…
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Holiday Specials
Cozonac
The Romanian Easter and Christmas bread: a rich yeasted dough rolled round a thick swirl of ground walnut and cocoa…
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Holiday Specials
Pan de Jamón
The Venezuelan Christmas loaf: a soft sweet dough rolled round ham, streaky bacon, green olives and raisins, so each…
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Holiday Specials
Bibingka
Filipino rice cake baked in a banana leaf over Christmas, topped with salted egg and cheese and finished with butter…
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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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Quick Meals
Kaya Toast
Charcoal-toasted white bread with a slab of cold butter and coconut-pandan jam, eaten with soft-boiled eggs seasoned…
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Quick Meals
Uitsmijter
Three fried eggs laid over ham and cheese on buttered bread — the Dutch lunch counter standard, named for the…
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Quick Meals
Æggekage
A thick Danish egg cake cooked slowly in one pan and finished under the grill, topped with crisp bacon, tomatoes and…
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Quick Meals
Malawach
Yemenite-Jewish laminated flatbread fried in a dry pan until the layers separate and blister, served with grated…
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Quick Meals
Croque Madame
Ham and Gruyère between buttered bread, blanketed in béchamel, grilled until it bubbles, and crowned with a fried egg.
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Baking
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Chewy in the middle, crisp at the rim, and heavy enough with oats that they hold their shape instead of spreading…
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Baking
Cut-Out Sugar Cookies
A cut-out sugar cookie that holds a sharp edge: no spreading, no puffed middles, and a crumb firm enough to ice and…
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Baking
Brown Butter Blondies
The blondie done properly: brown butter, dark brown sugar and no leavening at all, so the middle stays dense and…
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Baking
Lemon Bars
A thick, sharp lemon curd on a shortbread base that stays crisp underneath — the two problems every lemon bar has…
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Desserts
Classic Chocolate Layer Cake
The birthday cake standard: three dark, tender layers made with cocoa bloomed in boiling coffee, under a silky…
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Baking
Vanilla Sponge Cake
The plain vanilla sponge every other cake is built on: fine, even crumb, real vanilla, and enough structure to…
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Desserts
Angel Food Cake
A cake made of nothing but egg whites, sugar and a little flour, baked in an ungreased tin so it can climb the…
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Baking
Chocolate Cupcakes
Deep, dark cupcakes with a flat-enough top to frost and a crumb that stays moist for days. One bowl, a whisk, and no…
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Baking
Marble Cake
The German Marmorkuchen: one batter split in two, one half darkened with cocoa, and the two dragged through each…
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Baking
Pound Cake
A pound of each: butter, sugar, eggs and flour, creamed by hand until the batter is pale enough to be its own…
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Baking
Sour Cream Bundt Cake
A sour cream bundt with a fine, damp crumb and a lemon glaze that sets to a thin shell. The tin does the decorating…
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Desserts
Burnt Basque Cheesecake
The tarta de queso from La Viña in San Sebastián: no base, no water bath, and a deliberately scorched top over a…
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Breakfast
Chocolate Chip Muffins
Bakery-height domes, a crumb that tears rather than crumbles, and chocolate the whole way through instead of sunk in…
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Baking
Courgette Bread
A spiced loaf that uses up a glut and tastes of nothing green whatsoever: the courgette dissolves into moisture, and…
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Baking
Pumpkin Bread
Dark, damp and heavily spiced, with the pumpkin purée cooked down first so the loaf tastes of squash rather than of…
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Breakfast
Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake
The American coffee cake, which contains no coffee: a sour cream crumb cake with a thick cinnamon streusel on top…
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Desserts
French Fruit Tart
The pâtisserie window tart: crisp sweet pastry, a proper vanilla crème pâtissière, and whatever fruit is worth…
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Baking
Challah
An enriched, eggy bread with a fine, feathery pull and a mahogany crust, braided in six strands. Made with oil…
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Dinner
Salisbury Steak
Seasoned beef patties browned hard and simmered in a deep onion and mushroom gravy. Diner food done properly, which…
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Dinner
Baked Ziti
Ziti layered with a quick tomato sauce, ricotta and two more cheeses, baked until the top blisters. The pasta comes…
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Breakfast
Vegetable Frittata
Eggs started on the hob and finished under a grill, with the vegetables cooked properly first so they do not water…
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Holiday Specials
Sweet Potato Casserole
Roasted rather than boiled sweet potatoes, so the sugars concentrate instead of leaching into the water, under a…
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Holiday Specials
Sage and Onion Stuffing
Dried bread, a great deal of butter, onions cooked properly and enough stock that the middle stays soft while the…
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Lunch
Egg Salad Sandwich
Eggs boiled to a set-but-not-chalky yolk, half of them chopped and half mashed for texture, with mustard and chives…
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Lunch
Meatball Sub
Baked meatballs simmered in a quick tomato sauce, loaded into a roll that has been toasted with cheese first so it…
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Desserts
Chocolate Mousse
Four ingredients and no gelatine: melted chocolate, egg yolks, whipped whites and a little cream. The air is all…
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Desserts
Banana Pudding
Layers of vanilla wafers, sliced banana and a real cooked custard, left overnight so the biscuits soften into cake…
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Desserts
Strawberry Shortcake
Sweet, craggy biscuits rather than sponge, split while warm and piled with macerated strawberries and barely-whipped…
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Holiday Specials
Mince Pies
Homemade mincemeat matured for a day, in a sweet shortcrust rich enough to hold together in the hand. Butter rather…
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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
Potato Latkes
Grated potato and onion, wrung out hard, bound with egg and a spoonful of the potato's own starch, and fried until…
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Holiday Specials
Sufganiyot
Enriched doughnuts fried without a hole and filled after the fact, so the jam is a surprise rather than a topping…
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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
Bûche de Noël
A rolled chocolate sponge filled with cream, coated in ganache and dragged with a fork into bark. The sponge is…
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Baking
Hot Cross Buns
Soft, spiced and heavily fruited, with a piped flour cross and an apricot glaze that goes on while they are still…
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Holiday Specials
Simnel Cake
A light fruit cake with a disc of marzipan baked through the middle and eleven balls on top, one for each apostle…
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Drinks
Eggnog
A cooked custard base rather than raw eggs, spiked and chilled overnight. Thick enough to coat a spoon and nothing…
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Drinks
Vietnamese Egg Coffee
Cà phê trứng: a whipped custard of egg yolk and condensed milk floated on strong Vietnamese coffee. It sounds wrong…
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Breakfast
Dutch Baby Pancake
A single enormous pancake that climbs the sides of a screaming-hot skillet in the oven and collapses within a minute…
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Breakfast
Kedgeree
Smoked haddock, curried rice and soft-boiled eggs — a Victorian breakfast borrowed from khichri and improved by the…
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Breakfast
Migas Extremeñas
Stale bread torn small, dampened, and fried slowly in garlic oil with chorizo and peppers until every piece is crisp…
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Breakfast
Eggs Florentine
Poached eggs on wilted spinach and a toasted muffin under blender hollandaise. The hollandaise takes ninety seconds…
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Breakfast
Green Shakshuka
The green version: eggs baked into a pan of wilted greens, leek and herbs rather than tomato, with feta and a lemony…
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Breakfast
Bacon and Cheddar Egg Bites
Cooked in a bain-marie so they set like custard rather than scrambling into rubber. Twelve of them, and they reheat…
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Baking
Cloud Bread
Three ingredients whipped and baked into light, flexible rounds that stand in for a roll. Not bread in any real…
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Breakfast
Baked Avocado Eggs
An egg baked in the hollow of an avocado half, which sounds like a magazine idea and works because of one…
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Dinner
Singapore Chilli Crab
Singapore's national dish: whole crab wok-fried in a sweet, sour, savoury chilli gravy thickened with egg, eaten…
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Lunch
Glamorgan Sausages
Welsh sausages with no meat in them: Caerphilly, leek and breadcrumbs, rolled and fried until the crust crackles…
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Healthy
Kale Caesar Salad
Kale massaged with the dressing an hour ahead so it softens without wilting, under a proper anchovy Caesar and…
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Dinner
Mămăligă
Coarse polenta cooked in salted water until it pulls away from the pan, layered with soft cheese and soured cream…
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Lunch
Australian Meat Pie
A shortcrust base and a puff lid over a thick, dark beef filling that has been cooked and then cooled before it goes…
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Breakfast
Cachapas
Sweetcorn blitzed to a batter and griddled into thick, sweet pancakes, folded around a slab of soft white cheese…
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Appetizers
Cheese Rakakat
Cigarettes of filo around salty white cheese, fried until they blister. The cheese has to be one that softens…
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Dinner
Kibbeh Labaniyeh
Kibbeh balls poached in a stabilised yogurt sauce with garlic and dried mint. Warm, sour, and completely unlike the…
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Dinner
Shish Barak
Tiny meat dumplings pinched into rings and cooked in the same garlic-and-mint yogurt. Fiddly enough that it is a…
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Dinner
Kousa bil Laban
Stuffed courgettes finished in the garlic and mint yogurt rather than tomato. Milder than the tomato version and, in…
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Dinner
Macarona Bechamel
Penne bound in béchamel over a layer of spiced mince, baked until the top sets into a sliceable crust. Egypt by way…
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Desserts
Balah el Sham
Ridged fingers of choux fried rather than baked, dropped hot into cold syrup. The name means dates of Damascus…
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Breakfast
Lablabi
Chickpeas in a cumin and garlic broth poured over torn stale bread, with a raw egg cracked in and stirred through…
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Lunch
Kafteji
Peppers, tomato, courgette, potato and onion fried separately, then chopped together on a board with fried eggs…
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Appetizers
Doigts de Fatma
Fatma's fingers: malsouka pastry rolled around cheese, parsley and meat and fried into crisp cigars. The same pastry…
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Quick Meals
Ojja
Eggs broken into a fierce harissa and tomato sauce with merguez and left barely set. Fifteen minutes, one pan, and…
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Dinner
Tajine Tunisien
Nothing like a Moroccan tagine: this is a baked omelette thick with chicken, cheese and parsley, cut into squares…
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Lunch
Fricassé
A small fried bread roll split and packed with tuna, potato, olives, egg and harissa. Sold everywhere, eaten…
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Appetizers
Céleri Rémoulade
Raw celeriac cut into matchsticks and bound in a mustard-heavy mayonnaise. The most ordered starter in France and…
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Œufs Mayonnaise
Halved boiled eggs under a blanket of proper mayonnaise. There is a French society dedicated to defending it, which…
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Gougères
Choux buns with cheese beaten through, baked until hollow and eaten warm with a glass of something cold. Burgundy…
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Appetizers
Terrine de Campagne
A coarse country pâté of pork, liver and fat baked in a bain-marie and pressed overnight. Rustic on purpose — you…
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Appetizers
Aïoli
Garlic pounded to a cream and emulsified with olive oil, sometimes with a yolk to help it. Provence eats it with…
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Appetizers
Œufs en Meurette
Eggs poached in red wine and served on fried bread under a sauce made from the same wine. Burgundy taking the…
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Lunch
Soupe de Poisson
Whole small fish cooked down and forced through a mouli, served with rouille, croutons and grated cheese. Not…
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Dinner
Poule au Pot
A whole chicken stuffed and poached with vegetables, the broth served first and the meat after. Henri IV wanted…
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Dinner
Steak Tartare
Raw beef chopped by hand and seasoned at the table with capers, shallot, mustard and egg yolk. Chopped, never minced.
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Dinner
Cordon Bleu
Chicken breast wrapped around ham and cheese, breaded and fried. Swiss in origin, French in execution, and the seal…
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Dinner
Quenelles de Brochet
Pike beaten with choux paste into weightless dumplings, poached and baked in a crayfish sauce. Lyon, and one of the…
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Dinner
Bouchée à la Reine
Puff pastry cases filled with chicken, sweetbreads and mushrooms in a cream sauce. Named for Queen Marie…
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Dinner
Bar en Croûte de Sel
A whole fish buried in salt bound with egg white and baked. The crust sets hard, seals completely, and the fish…
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Lunch
Pipérade
Peppers, tomatoes and onions cooked down to a jam with Espelette, then eggs stirred through. Basque, and often eaten…
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Dinner
Gratin de Courgettes
Courgettes cooked down with rice and bound with egg and cheese, from Provence. The rice is cooked in the courgette…
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Lunch
Frisée aux Lardons
Curly endive with hot bacon, a vinegar-deglazed dressing and a poached egg on top. The dressing is made in the bacon…
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Quick Meals
Omelette aux Fines Herbes
A French omelette: pale, rolled, and barely set inside. Two minutes of cooking and about a decade of getting it right.
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Lunch
Pan Bagnat
A salade niçoise pressed into a round loaf until the bread soaks up the dressing. Bagnat means bathed, and the…
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Lunch
Galettes Bretonnes
Buckwheat crêpes filled with ham, cheese and an egg, the edges folded into a square. Savoury and dark, and a…
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Appetizers
Saucisson en Brioche
A poaching sausage baked inside brioche. Lyon, and the trick is that the sausage is cooked and cooled before it is…
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Baking
Pain au Chocolat
Laminated dough rolled around two batons of chocolate. The same dough as a croissant, and the same single problem…
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Desserts
Tarte au Citron
A thin pastry case filled with lemon curd set with butter and eggs. Sharp enough to make you blink, which is the…
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Desserts
Tarte aux Pommes
Apple slices fanned over an apple purée in a thin pastry case, glazed with apricot. The purée underneath is what…
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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
Flan Parisien
A deep custard tart with a thick, wobbling set and a scorched top. Sold by the slab in every French bakery and…
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Desserts
Far Breton
A dense batter pudding with prunes, somewhere between a clafoutis and a flan. Brittany, and traditionally made with…
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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
Saint-Honoré
Puff pastry base, choux buns dipped in caramel, and piped crème chiboust between them. Named after the patron saint…
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Desserts
Religieuse
A large choux bun with a small one on top, both filled and glazed, finished with a collar of buttercream. Meant to…
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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
Fraisier
Strawberries stood upright around the edge of a génoise, packed in mousseline cream. Summer, and the strawberries…
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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
Mont-Blanc
Chestnut purée pushed through a ricer into vermicelli over meringue and cream, made to look like the mountain. Piped…
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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
Baba au Rhum
A yeasted sponge soaked until it is saturated with rum syrup. It should be heavy with it — a dry baba is a failed one.
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Desserts
Crème Caramel
Baked custard turned out so the caramel runs down it. The caramel goes into the moulds first and dissolves into a…
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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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Desserts
Riz au Lait
Rice cooked slowly in vanilla milk until it is creamy but the grains still hold. Served warm in the bowl it was…
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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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Baking
Chouquettes
Small choux buns rolled in pearl sugar and baked empty. Sold by weight in paper bags and eaten before you get home.
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Baking
Gâteau au Yaourt
The cake every French child learns first, measured in the empty yogurt pot rather than on scales. Plain, reliable…
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Appetizers
Carpaccio di Manzo
Raw beef beaten paper-thin under a mustard mayonnaise, rocket and parmesan. Invented at Harry's Bar in Venice for a…
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Appetizers
Supplì
Roman rice croquettes with a piece of mozzarella at the centre that pulls into a thread when you bite it. Supplì al…
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Dinner
Tagliatelle al Ragù
The Bologna ragù, which contains almost no tomato and cooks for three hours. Served on fresh egg tagliatelle and…
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Dinner
Tortellini in Brodo
Tiny filled pasta in clear capon broth, and nothing else. Emilia at Christmas, and the broth matters as much as the…
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Dinner
Agnolotti del Plin
Piedmontese filled pasta pinched shut along a single strip, so a row of them comes off the sheet in one go. Plin…
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Dinner
Canederli
Bread dumplings with speck, from the Alto Adige, served in broth or with butter. The bread must be properly stale…
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Dinner
Polpette al Sugo
Meatballs cooked in the sauce rather than before it, so the sauce takes on the meat and the meat stays soft. The…
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Dinner
Cotoletta alla Milanese
A veal chop on the bone, breaded and fried in clarified butter. Milan insists on the bone, and Milan is right about…
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Dinner
Torta Pasqualina
A Ligurian Easter pie of chard and ricotta with whole eggs baked inside, under many thin sheets of pastry. Cut…
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Desserts
Sfogliatella Riccia
A shell of a hundred paper-thin leaves around a semolina and ricotta filling. The hardest pastry in Naples and worth…
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Desserts
Babà Napoletano
A yeasted mushroom-shaped cake soaked in rum syrup until it is heavy in the hand. Naples took it from Poland by way…
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Desserts
Pastiera Napoletana
A wheat, ricotta and orange flower tart that Naples makes on Good Friday and eats the following Tuesday. It…
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Desserts
Cassata Siciliana
Sponge, sweetened ricotta and marzipan under a white glaze and a riot of candied fruit. Palermo at its most baroque…
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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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Desserts
Struffoli
Tiny fried dough balls tumbled in honey and heaped into a ring with candied peel and sprinkles. Naples at Christmas…
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Desserts
Zuppa Inglese
Sponge fingers soaked scarlet in alchermes, layered with two custards. Emilia's answer to trifle, and older than the…
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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
Crostata di Marmellata
A jam tart under a lattice, made in every Italian house and eaten for breakfast as often as for pudding. The pastry…
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Baking
Ciambellone
The plain ring cake that sits under a cloth in Italian kitchens all week, dunked in coffee at breakfast and in milk…
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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
Pandoro
Verona's Christmas cake: a tall eight-pointed star of deep yellow butter dough, baked plain and buried in icing…
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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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Baking
Pizzelle
Thin anise waffle wafers pressed in a patterned iron, crisp enough to snap. Abruzzo has made them since the eighth…
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Baking
Maritozzo
A soft sweet bun split almost in half and packed with an absurd quantity of whipped cream, then cut flush with a…
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Appetizers
Scotch Woodcock
Scrambled egg on anchovy toast, and there has never been any woodcock in it. Churchill ate it, the House of Commons…
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Baking
Melton Mowbray Pork Pie
Hot water crust raised by hand around coarsely chopped pork, baked free-standing and filled with jelly through a…
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Baking
Sausage Rolls
Good sausagemeat in butter puff, glazed and seeded. Everything wrong with a shop sausage roll is the pastry, and…
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Dinner
Faggots and Peas
Coarse offal meatballs wrapped in caul fat and baked in onion gravy, with mushy peas alongside. The Black Country's…
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Dinner
Stargazy Pie
A Cornish fish pie with the heads of the pilchards poking through the crust to look at the sky. It sounds like a…
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Dinner
Fish Pie
White fish, smoked fish and prawns under mashed potato, in a sauce made from the milk the fish poached in. The mash…
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Appetizers
Dressed Crab
A crab picked and returned to its own shell, brown meat one side, white the other. An hour of fiddly work and the…
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Dinner
Chicken and Leek Pie
Poached chicken and slow-cooked leeks under a proper pastry lid, in a sauce made from the poaching liquid. A pie…
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Dinner
Rabbit Pie
Rabbit braised with bacon and cider until it falls off the bone, then baked under pastry. The most-eaten meat in…
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Dinner
Pease Pudding
Yellow split peas boiled to a purée in ham stock and set firm enough to slice. Tyneside eats it cold in a stottie…
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Desserts
Treacle Sponge Pudding
A steamed sponge with a pool of golden syrup at the bottom that becomes a sauce over the top when it is turned out…
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Baking
Treacle Tart
Golden syrup, breadcrumbs and lemon in a pastry case, under a lattice. Sweet enough to make your teeth ache and the…
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Desserts
Queen of Puddings
A custard set over breadcrumbs, spread with warm jam and finished with meringue. Three separate puddings stacked on…
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Baking
Chelsea Buns
A spiral of enriched dough rolled around currants and spice, baked touching so the sides stay soft, and glazed…
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Baking
Custard Tart
A pastry case filled with set egg custard and grated nutmeg. Nothing to hide behind, which is why it is the tart…
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Baking
Welsh Cakes
Spiced currant cakes cooked on a flat griddle rather than in an oven, dusted with sugar and eaten warm. Fifteen…
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Baking
Eccles Cakes
Currants in butter and spice inside flaky pastry, slashed three times and baked until the sugar on top caramelises…
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Baking
Yorkshire Parkin
An oatmeal, treacle and ginger cake that is inedible on the day it is baked and excellent a week later. Yorkshire…
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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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Baking
Nai Wong Bao
Snow-white steamed buns filled with a set custard of egg yolk, butter and milk powder. The filling is made and…
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Breakfast
Jianbing
A thin mung bean crepe with an egg cracked onto it, folded around a sheet of fried cracker, hoisin and coriander…
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Appetizers
Century Egg with Cold Tofu
Century eggs on cold silken tofu with soy, chilli oil and a great deal of coriander. Assembly only, five minutes…
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Appetizers
Marbled Tea Eggs
Hard-boiled eggs cracked all over and simmered in tea, soy and star anise until the shell pattern shows through as…
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Dinner
La Zi Ji
Fried chicken pieces buried in a wok of dried chillies and Sichuan pepper, from which you hunt out the chicken…
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Dinner
Yangzhou Fried Rice
Fried rice with prawns, char siu and egg, where every grain is separate and coated in yolk. The version everything…
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Lunch
Zongzi
Glutinous rice packed with pork belly and salted egg yolk into a bamboo-leaf pyramid, tied with string and boiled…
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Lunch
West Lake Beef Soup
A thick clear soup of minced beef and egg white with a great deal of coriander. Hangzhou, and it takes twenty…
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Lunch
Egg Drop Soup
Stock thickened lightly and finished with beaten egg poured in a thread so it sets into ribbons. Ten minutes, four…
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Desserts
Hong Kong Egg Waffle
A sheet of connected batter spheres cooked in a hinged iron, crisp outside and hollow within, torn apart while…
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Appetizers
Chicken 65
Small pieces of chicken in a red, curry-leaf-scented coating, fried hard and tossed with yoghurt and chilli. A…
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Appetizers
Chicken Lollipop
Chicken wings frenched into a lollipop, battered red and fried. Bar food across India, and the reason wing drumettes…
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Dinner
Egg Curry
Boiled eggs halved into a spiced onion and tomato gravy. The cheapest good curry there is, and on the table in…
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Breakfast
Egg Bhurji
Indian scrambled eggs with onion, tomato and green chilli, cooked hard and fast. Fifteen minutes, two pans of…
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Quick Meals
Kimchi Fried Rice
Cold rice fried hard with sour kimchi and topped with a fried egg. Twenty-five minutes, and better the older the…
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Appetizers
Gyeranjjim
Eggs beaten with water and steamed in an earthenware pot until they rise like a soufflé. Twenty minutes, and it…
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Dinner
Tonkatsu
A pork loin cutlet in panko, fried until the crust is pale gold and shattering. The cutlet behind katsu curry, done…
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Dinner
Shoyu Ramen
A clear chicken broth seasoned with a soy tare, with chashu pork, a marinated egg and thin curled noodles. The…
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Dinner
Ebi Fry
Panko prawns fried straight rather than curled, served with tartare. A Japanese diner classic and the reason for the…
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Quick Meals
Pad Woon Sen
Glass noodles tossed with egg, prawns and vegetables in a light soy dressing. Twenty-seven minutes and lighter than…
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Dinner
Chile Relleno
A poblano stuffed with cheese, dipped in whipped egg and fried, then sat in a thin tomato broth. The hardest easy…
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Lunch
Potato Salad
Waxy potatoes dressed while still warm with mayonnaise, mustard and egg. Forty minutes, and it wants an hour in the…
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Lunch
Egg Salad
Hard-boiled eggs chopped rough with mayonnaise, mustard and chives. Twenty minutes, and the texture depends entirely…
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Desserts
Fudge Brownies
Dense, dark and barely set in the middle, with a papery crackled top. Forty minutes, and the whole thing turns on…
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Breakfast
Fluffy Pancakes
Thick American pancakes that rise in the pan. Twenty-five minutes, and the batter must be lumpy.
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Appetizers
Tiropita
Feta and egg between layers of filo, baked until the top shatters. Cut it before it goes in the oven, not after.
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Dinner
Manti
Dumplings the size of a fingernail under garlic yoghurt and paprika butter. Eighty minutes, most of it folding.
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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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Breakfast
Perfect Scrambled Eggs
Eggs cooked slowly with butter until they set in soft curds. Eleven minutes and there is nothing else in them.
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Breakfast
Banana Pancakes
Ripe banana mashed into pancake batter, which makes them sweeter and denser than plain ones. Twenty-five minutes.
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Dinner
Spaghetti and Meatballs
Meatballs browned and finished in the sauce, over spaghetti. Italian-American, and none the worse for it.
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Appetizers
Lumpiang Shanghai
Thin pork and vegetable spring rolls, rolled pencil-thin and fried hard. Filipino parties are counted in these.
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Appetizers
Sisig
Pork face and belly boiled, grilled, chopped fine and served on a plate hot enough to keep frying it at the table.
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Dinner
Ayam Goreng
Chicken simmered in turmeric and lemongrass, then fried, with the spiced poaching liquid fried alongside into crisp…
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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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Lunch
Kookoo Sabzi
More herb than egg, dark green all the way through, studded with walnut and sour barberry. Cook it low or it turns…
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Breakfast
Placki Ziemniaczane
Grated potato pancakes fried crisp at the edges and soft in the middle. Forty minutes, and the squeezing is the…
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Baking
Makowiec
A yeasted roll wound around a thick poppy seed filling, sliced to show the spiral. Poland's Christmas cake.
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Breakfast
Syrniki
Curd cheese pancakes, crisp outside and almost custardy in the middle, eaten with soured cream and jam.
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Appetizers
Papa a la Huancaína
Boiled potatoes under a yellow chilli and cheese sauce, cold, with olives and egg. Thirty-five minutes.
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Lunch
Jamaican Beef Patties
Turmeric pastry folded round spiced minced beef and baked. The colour comes from the pastry, not the filling.
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Desserts
Milk Tart
A pale set custard in a thin crust under a heavy dusting of cinnamon. South Africa's tea-time tart, and not a baked…
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Desserts
Mandazi
Cardamom and coconut milk in a soft fried triangle, sweet enough for morning and not much more. Kenya's doughnut.
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Dinner
Czech Dumplings
Bread dumplings steamed in a cloth roll and cut into rounds with thread. What Czech gravy is served over.
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Dinner
Raggmunk
Thin potato pancakes fried in butter, with bacon and lingonberry. Sweden's Thursday, and forty minutes.
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Lunch
Zosui
Rice simmered in dashi with egg stirred through. Thirty minutes, and what Japanese households make from yesterday's…
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Dinner
Katsudon
A pork cutlet simmered for ninety seconds in dashi and onion with egg poured over, slid onto rice. Forty minutes.
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Breakfast
Khai Jiao
A Thai omelette dropped into deep hot oil so it puffs and crisps at the edges. Thirteen minutes, and it goes on rice.
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Lunch
Bún Riêu
A tomato and crab broth with floating clouds of crab and egg, over rice vermicelli. Sharper and lighter than phở.
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Baking
Pineapple Bun
A soft milk bun under a crackled sweet crust that splits into a pattern in the oven. No pineapple in it anywhere.
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Breakfast
Corned Beef Hash
Corned beef and potato pressed into a hot pan and left alone until a crust forms. Forty minutes and one flip.
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Baking
Monkey Bread
Balls of enriched dough rolled in cinnamon sugar, stacked in a ring tin and baked so they pull apart in a caramel.
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Baking
Barmbrack
A tea-soaked fruit loaf with a ring hidden in it, sliced and buttered. Ireland's Hallowe'en cake.
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Desserts
Black Forest Gateau
Chocolate sponge soaked in kirsch, layered with cherries and cream. The kirsch is not optional and never was.
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Desserts
Sernik
A dense baked cheesecake made with twaróg rather than cream cheese, which makes it drier and more interesting.
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Desserts
Medovik
Eight or nine paper-thin honey layers stacked with soured cream, left overnight until the whole thing softens into…
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Dinner
Varenyky
Ukrainian dumplings filled with sour cherries, boiled and served with soured cream and sugar. Sweet, and a main…
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Desserts
Dobos Torte
Five thin sponge layers with chocolate buttercream and a caramel disc on top, cut into wedges before it sets.
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Breakfast
Jachnun
Buttered dough stretched thin, rolled up and baked overnight until it turns dark and sweet. Yemenite Jewish Saturday…
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Baking
Conchas
Sweet enriched rolls under a crisp sugar paste scored into a shell. Mexico's pan dulce, and the pattern is the name.
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