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Subject: Learning to cook with delicious.
From: Alice O’Gorman
At the start of lockdown, my daughter demanded I make scones. I have flashbacks of cutting out rough circles of dough with a knife as I didn’t own any cookie cutters. Fast forward and I now have an arsenal of kitchen tools, a batch cooking addiction and I pick up delicious. every month. Best of all, I have a little chef, my son [right], who adores helping. As someone who could burn water two years ago, it’s been bliss learning to cook. Thanks for keeping us going!
Subject: More to discover
From: Sandy Ross
I was delighted to see Graz featured [Jun, p121] but was surprised that Ginko (restaurant-ginko.at) wasn’t mentioned. It’s a relaxed cafeteria-style restaurant whose chefs draw on a variety of cuisines to produce seasonal vegan and vegetarian dishes. Something else to look out for is Zotter chocolate (zotter.at). The factory in Riegersburg is too far for a day trip from Graz, but many cafés offer hot chocolate made with special melting bars of Zotter. And if you enjoy mead (and don’t mind heavy metal and hard rock), don’t miss Die Taverne zum güldenen Bären (find them on Facebook): there’s no better place to try blood orange mead. Graz is so worth a weekend trip, but there’s enough to savour for a longer visit, too.
Talking point gets you talking
Tina Charisma’s take on national cuisines [May, p130] sparked quite a flurry of discussion:
From: Sue Dudley
I have to disagree with Tina about global potluck and being able to access the same flavours wherever we are in the world. Why would we want to? In my travels I love to enjoy local flavours. Friends and family who visit me in the South of France, where I’m lucky to live for part of each year, don’t want food they can eat in Britain – they want local specialities: mussels and shellfish from Gruissan, small spicy lamb pies from Pézenas and the best pain aux raisin in the world, just five minutes from our house.
From: Jacqueline Pearce
What does the term ‘national cuisine’ mean today? To me it means I can eat my way around the world. At the age of five, my family moved to Cyprus. Since then, I’ve loved trying food from all different cultures. During the week we could eat the Thai, Italian, Polish or Mexican and Indian dishes I’ve learned to cook over the years, and the list goes on. Even so, I remain loyal to my British heritage, with a love of a full English breakfast and a good beef stew or roast dinner on a Sunday.
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