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We are recipe-hunters. Our flat is filled with bits of paper scribbled with rudimentary instructions from friendly cooks we meet on the way; pages we’ve torn from newspapers and foreign magazines with a picture we like and a recipe we will one day translate; menus with cryptic notes written after drunken dinners (what did we eat that made us write “coriander before and after, also lamb, must try”, and what does it mean?). Our phones are also filled with pictures, not only of dishes we liked but also of recipes we will one day try, in our never-ending search for lovely things to cook, serve and eat.
Most of these recipes never get made, but every so often, when we have some headspace and free time, we go through these papers, take recipes to the kitchen and try them. Most will be made once and never be revisited, even if the results were good, because that is not the point of the exercise: whenever you follow a recipe, you follow in someone’s footsteps, getting a glimpse of their mind and their experience, and there is always something interesting to take from that. But then sometimes, rarely, we come across a recipe that is so good, so special, and so right for us, that we return to it again and again, and it becomes part of our experience, our minds.
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