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" Hardly any of my most memorable meals have been eaten in a restaurant, and definitely none in one of those fancy marble-floored, polished-silver establishments. "

Yotam Ottolenghi

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" Yogurt sauce, as you may have noticed by now, is a regular presence in my recipes - that's because it has the ability to round up so many flavours and textures like no other component does. "

Yotam Ottolenghi

Now

Ability

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Yotam Ottolenghi

Table

Intimacy

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