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Recipes & Kitchen Notes

Simple recipes. Serious flavour.

Powerful Ingredients

One ingredient, or a small set worth keeping together — what it is, what the usual advice about it gets wrong, and the real places it ends up in a dish.

Powerful Ingredients is written from published food-science sources, which are listed at the foot of every piece. Nothing in this section has been cooked or tasted here — where a time, a temperature, a price or a result is given, it belongs to the source it is credited to, and nothing in it is nutrition advice.