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The Times Magazine 71THE LITTLE BLACK BOOK
Tony Turnbull 12 things in the kitchen of the Times food editor
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De Buyer Mineral B frying pans
(24cm, £40; souschef.co.uk)
Forget the overpriced, overhyped Always pan- this is one that serious home cooks want.
5
Arbequina extra
virgin olive oil
(one litre, £10.95;
brindisa.com)
Sweet and grassy, with
a hint of pepper on the
finish, good for finishing
dishes but not so crazy
expensive you feel a fool
cooking with it.9
It’s Alive! Smoked Sriracha Hot Sauce
(150ml, £3.99; eatenalive.co.uk)
Smoky, mild, fermented chilli sauce
that turbocharges anything from fried
eggs to cheese on toast.6
Mutti tinned tomatoes
(400g, £1.20; major
supermarkets)
Sweet and ripe. Simply
add garlic and reduce
down for a simple but
flavoursome tomato sauce.2
Specially selected giant
Sicilian nocellara olives
(150g, £1.69; Aldi)
Best-value olives in any
supermarket, these won
three stars at the Great
Taste Awards 2020.10
Belazu tahini
(500g, £5.20, down
from £6.95; Waitrose)
Sweet, nutty and smooth – perfect
in dips, dressings and swirled
through chocolate brownies.7
Wusthof Classic
Ikon bread knife
(23cm, £109; boroughkitchen.com)
Never known a bread knife like it- its double serrated edge cuts through
the toughest crust like butter.
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Fabbri Amarena
cherries in syrup
(600g, £8.70; Ocado)
Sweet and juicy- my go-to instant
pudding served
with yoghurt or ice
cream and crumbled
amaretti biscuits.
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Mount’s Bay escabeche sardines
(120g, £5; therockfish.co.uk)
You wouldn’t expect Cornish tinned sardines
to set the culinary world alight but, on toast,
these are my desert island snack.12
Union hand-roasted
coffee (200g, from
£4.50; Sainsbury’s)
One of the first
speciality coffee
roasters, and the
brand I reach for
in the supermarket.
Ever reliable, its
Revelation espresso
always hits the spot.4
ManiLife peanut butter
(295g, £3.75; Sainsbury’s)
No palm oil, no sugar, just
salt and peanuts from a
single estate in Argentina.
The king of nut butters.11
Reserva Catalina
Cantabrian anchovies
(110g, £18; josepizarro.com)
Salted for two years and preserved
in olive oil, these are best eaten
with thickly buttered sourdough
and a glass of manzanilla sherry.GETTY IMAGES
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