CONTENTS I S SUE 23 , S PRING 20 2 4 Starters


12 | TRY IT NOW Loaded hash browns 15 | WHAT THEY’RE EATING IN Glasgow 16 | SPOTLIGHT The UK’s best bagel bakeries 19 | MAKE PERFECT Pierogi 20 | NUMBER CRUNCHING Onions 22 | THE DRINK English whisky 25 | MEET THE MAKER Japanese wasabi 27 | FIVE WAYS Saffron 28 | WINE Lesser-known South American wines 31 | MY LIFE IN FOOD Film director Ridley Scott 33 | RECIPE JOURNAL Lamb dishes 40 | THE PIONEER Mumbai-based chef Vanika Choudhary


114 120 100 On the cover Features


Khao soi soup. Image: Stockfood


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100 | CITY BREAK Spend a weekend eating your way around the Czech capital, Prague 106 | A TASTE OF Corsican wine, honey and chestnuts in all their glory 112 | ON LOCATION Craft beer and Italian cuisine in the pretty Pennines town of Hebden Bridge


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114 | BOOKS Dina Macki on the interlinked cuisines of Oman and Zanzibar 120 | NEW RELEASES Five cookbooks 122 | REVIEWS New UK restaurants 124 | EAT & STAY An overnight escape 130 | ON THE TABLE What we’ve been enjoying in the world of food


Recipes


34 | Giaourtlou 35 | Seven-hour roasted leg of lamb 36 | Sabzi 37 | Lamb chakapuli tarragon 57 | Khao soi 61 | Weeping tiger steak 75 | Quiche lorraine 83 | Mole estofado almendrado 96 | Veal kofte 109 | Rock lobster ravioli 116 | Spinach and coconut shakshuka 117 | Plantain or banana, coconut and cardamom cake 119 | Honeycomb bread 121 | Blood orange and caramel baked custards


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IMAGES: KRISTÝNA HADAČOVÁ; GETTY; NASSIMA ROTHACKER; ASSAD DADAN


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