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Food Writing · · 1 min read

The Most Important of Lists

The philosophical quandry of quantifying a list of the top 25 most influential recipes.

Slate recently published 'The 25 Recipes that Changed It All in American Cooking Over the Past 100 Years' and it's both great and fascinating. To anyone who loves food, quantifying a list of recipes into a top 25 is as Slate notes, provoking of a philosophical quandry.

One of my store cupboard favourites is Marcella Hazan's Tomato Sauce With Onion & Butter. A dish that is inexplicably flavoursome for so few ingredients.

Also a reminder of the importance of Indian cuisine made accessible for the West by Madhur Jaffrey.

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