Turn the oven down a notch, put in the dish of extra stuffing and continue cooking for a further 30-40 minutes, adding the remaining olives for the last 10. Little and co-author Richard Whittington wrote this cookbook keeping firmly in mind the difficulties readers often have with cookbooks by celebrity chefs: the recipes often appear too exotic or too daunting to try. Most of the prep can, in fact needs, to be done in advance making it ideal for dîner à deux when you don’t want to be spending hours in the kitchen. Dot the apples with the remaining butter and put the pan back on a low heat for 5 minutes to melt the caramel and start the apples cooking. She is one of the masters of modern cooking, and her recipes have been among my most profound influences.

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authors were British and 33 (34, 54, 26) American, the others from 18 (26, 13, 9) other countries or a mix. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. A few days later, Paula said this: “After a few days of reflection, I am still not comfortable with the casual exploitation of his mum’s life experiences. The author is Ghanaian, and the book is his imaginary vision of his mother’s journey from Ghana to England, and her life as an immigrant.

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The section about the Salton Sea in California reminded me of the Aral Sea in Chris Aslan’s “ Unravelling the Silk Road“, read in November, and of course that sea was mentioned here, too. Flyn does address environmental degradation and catastrophe head-on in the final sections, but she ends with a note of optimism, that something resilient always seems to spring from destruction. If the mixture collapses when you are folding in the flour, go ahead and bake anyway - it will be a little heavy, but will still have all the flavours. Olney was one of the guests, and I later heard that when the waiter poured him a glass of red wine, he sipped it and sent it back.My lovely BookCrossing not so secret santa Julia gave me three lovely books as well as chocolate and a lovely cloth bag. Bookish Beck kindly sent me this one in October 2022, part of a print incomings that numbered 23 (nine read and reviewed, one passed along) and of the six she sent me then, I’ve now read and reviewed two.