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A COOKS BOOK - NIGEL SLATER GEBUNDEN

Breaking bread  `It started with a baguette. That first loaf  bought at dawn from a boulangerie
on my way home after a night out in Paris  still warm  its crust crackling. The floury  craggy
point of the bread ¿ more crust than crumb  more air than loaf ¿wrenched off as I walked  and
eaten (sans beurre  sans confiture  sans jambon) in the street will never leave me.¿ So  back
to simple  `Dinner is rarely more than a single dish in this house. A bowl of chilli and greens
plump  garlicky beans slowly cooked in the oven  a boned chicken leg on the grill brushed with
thyme and lemon. Sometimes we feast: a vast dish of pasta with mussels and prawns  a steaming
pie of sweet potatoes and lentils  baked fatty pork with butter beans and broth. Even then 
this is straightforward eating. The nearest you will get to a `starter¿ is a bowl of olives.¿
Four chocolate cakes  `One afternoon  late in 2017  I made what was to become my favourite
chocolate cake of all. Shallow  fudge-like and spiked with sherry-soaked golden sultanas and
shards of chocolate  its surface gritty with caster sugar scented with rosemary. A cake for an
autumn afternoon  perhaps with coffee or smoky roasted tea. A fire  several gardens away  had
sent a long  lazy curl of smoke into the darkening sky. My fancy turned to the thought of
dabbing sweet crumbs  roasted nuts and dark chocolate from a plate with my finger and thumb.¿

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