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" Buckwheat, like Marmite and durian, is a seriously divisive foodstuff, so it needs a seriously capable defence team if it's ever going to make it on to most people's dinner tables. "

Yotam Ottolenghi

People

Dinner

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Why

Rice

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Yotam Ottolenghi

Come

Fact

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" Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the domestic kitchen. "

Yotam Ottolenghi

Kitchen

Life

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