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Dorset, my first home, has a
great store of wonderful local ingredients. Fresh fish and shellfish, its
wonderful lamb, apples
and cheeses and I have often been asked to recreate these dishes when
I am working abroad.
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Having been lucky enough to
work in a Palace in Sicily, Casa Cuesini, then owned by the now sadly
late Miss Daphne Phelps, author of A House in Sicily. Not one piece
of pizza was eaten!
I came home, with thanks to Concetta, Daphnes
retired cook and housekeeper, with a wonderful but uniquely simple
Mediterranean recipe base, using fresh ingredients such as fennel,
artichoke,
smoked aubergine, chicken, prawns and not forgetting the
delightful Sicilian spaghetti cake. |
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