London-based cook and food stylist
Anna Jones is a multi-award-winning
writer whose books like One: Pot, Pan, Planet and The Modern Cook’s Year have won her legions of fans around the world.
Sunshine Coast-based Kiwi chef Andy Hearnden has worked the world over – and cooked at some of its finest restaurants such as Sydney’s famed French bistro, Felix, and Tom’s Kitchen in London.
She's progressed from being a 15-year-old dishwasher in her native Northern Ireland to working under Gordon Ramsay to the opening of her triple Michelin-star restaurant, Core. Clare Smyth opens up about this most tasteful evolution of dining excellence and explains why simplicity is making a comeback.
This little salad, a thrilling mix of flavours, textures and colours that is almost too glorious to look at, is a speciality of Gaziantep, a Turkish city on the border with Syria, famous for its gastronomy. If you don’t have pomegranate seeds, never mind.
This recipe is inspired by kousa b’laban, a Levantine dish of stuffed baby marrow cooked in yoghurt. In this simplified version the yoghurt sauce and grilled courgettes are cooked separately, then served with a quick saffron butter to spoon on top.
