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How to build a restaurant dish
Pickle... Roast. Brown.. Layer
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Part 16: As good as the last steak you cooked
Lessons from a kitchen summer job
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A recipe for "kalakeitto" (Finnish fish soup)
Elegy for the last summer sun
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August 2023
Wild mushroom caramel (and other stories)
Two mushroom tarts, one sweet, one savoury
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A recipe for crucified salmon
Next-level barbecue for summer's end
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Part 15: How Not to be a Ghost
The story of the first time I was fired
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6 things I really don't like 🥦🤨
I'm probably wrong about most of these
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July 2023
"Most chefs would go insane if they had to do anything else."
Interview with my old head chef, Jacco
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A recipe for pineapple weed meringue pie
VIDEO: Putting foraged herbs to delicious use
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Part 14: The rise and fall of Nickel and Dime
Plus a secret link to a very special recipe
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A recipe for black sesame ice cream
Impossibly good
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June 2023
A recipe for grilled butter
Weird but very delicious
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