YOUR RECIPE INSPIRATION
24 MEET THE CROWDPLEASERS
Why are they so good? Because they all
use mince, the comfort-food supreme
34 6 SEASONAL JOY-MAKERS
Celebrate September’s star ingredients,
from sweetcorn to juicy plums
44 THE COOKOUT: SUMMER’S LAST HURRAH
Recipes to get you cooking outdoors –
even if it’s only in your garden
56 OTTOLENGHI’S GUIDE TO FLAVOUR
The master of laid-back brilliance
returns with new, veg-packed ideas
66 CHEF’S SECRET RECIPE
A high-powered crab gratin from
mover and shaker Stuart Gillies
68 MOVIE NIGHT
Enjoy Ratatouille as you scoff that very
dish with Provençal-style burgers
72 DELIA RETROSPECTIVE
Her once-scandalous no-stir risottoSEPTEMBER 2020
CONTENTS
81 THE EASY BAKE Are they cookies or
brownies? Who cares – they’re yum
82 THE BIG PUD: MANGO CHEESECAKE
Why aren’t you in the kitchen yet?READ ALL ABOUT IT
6 YOUR delicious.
What you’re cooking and debating, plus
your online favourites
10 ...AND NOW FOR THE GOOD NEWS
Great things to do now, plus inspiring
people in food and the latest book trend
14 EDITOR’S CHOICE
Useful and beautiful things, top food and
drink and the best mail-order offerings
18 HOW TO KIT OUT YOUR KITCHEN
Debora Robertson’s guide will help you
declutter (the egg slicer’s looking nervous)
20 EVERYONE KNOWS THAT... OR DO THEY?
Expert Annie Gray asks why we swallow
such tosh when it comes to food history56
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ON THE COVER
PORK CHOPS WITH PLUMS,
WALNUTS AND SAGE BUT TER, P
Recipe and food styling Jen Bedloe
Photograph Maja Smend
Styling Tony Hutchinson
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