EAN: 9780008213763

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

Breaking bread `It started with a baguette. That first loaf bought at dawn from a boulangerie on my way home after a night out in Paris still warm its crust crackling. The floury craggy point of the bread ¿ more crust than crumb more air than loaf ¿wrenched off as I walked and eaten (sans beurre sans confiture sans jambon) in the street will never leave me.¿ So back to simple `Dinner is rarely more than a single dish in this house. A bowl of chilli and greens plump garlicky beans slowly cooked in the oven a boned chicken leg on the grill brushed with thyme and lemon. Sometimes we feast: a vast dish of pasta with mussels and prawns a steaming pie of sweet potatoes and lentils baked fatty pork with butter beans and broth. Even then this is straightforward eating. The nearest you will get to a `starter¿ is a bowl of olives.¿ Four chocolate cakes `One afternoon late in 2017 I made what was to become my favourite chocolate cake of all. Shallow fudge-like and spiked with sherry-soaked golden sultanas and shards of chocolate its surface gritty with caster sugar scented with rosemary. A cake for an autumn afternoon perhaps with coffee or smoky roasted tea. A fire several gardens away had sent a long lazy curl of smoke into the darkening sky. My fancy turned to the thought of dabbing sweet crumbs roasted nuts and dark chocolate from a plate with my finger and thumb.¿

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