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Allegra McEvedy
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The food writers and cooks discuss family meals and their children’s favourite pancake recipes
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After setting up a pig-based restaurant, Allegra McEvedy went to the slaughterhouse that would process her meat. What was it like?
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Readers' recipe swap: bedtime drinks. Soothing and warming nightcaps to help ease you into a restful night's sleep (with or without a dash of something stronger…)
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Readers' recipe swap: Too soon for vats of soup? Try our readers' hearty seasonal meals
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To mark 10 years of the Observer Food Monthly Awards, a selection of the best recipes from the magazine over the past decade
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Are Nigella's days spent scoffing chocolate cake? Does Heston blow-torch his dinner every night? We asked six foodies to share their week in meals, with illuminating results
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Allegra McEvedy cooks Burmese duck egg curry, a recipe you don't see much on menus in the UK
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Allegra McEvedy demonstrates how to cook pumpkin and ginger doughnuts, a recipe inspired by her time in New York
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A famous traditional dish known as feijoada in Brazil
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The chef collects knives on her travels and each has its own use and story
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Bow ties and blue dreadlocks, padded bras and bullying: who'd be a teenager? Ten grown-ups, all doing just fine now, remember the agonies of adolescence
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Allegra McEvedy suggests you clear out your veg-box and add a few herbs to this quick, healthy barley-based packed lunch
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Allegra McEvedy's fail-safe couscous recipe is quick, healthy and more substantial than a regular packed lunch
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Allegra McEvedy serves up a Middle Eastern variation on a Spanish tortilla which makes a lighter, greener packed lunch
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Allegra McEvedy's quick, healthy take on the caesar salad has all the flavour, but less of the bother
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Soups and stews: A winning starter or light supper, this soup comes out smooth and soft and is delicious served with these zingy little croutons
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Soups and stews: A silky, refreshing, yet filling soup. What's not to like?
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Soups and stews: Fiendishly easy to make, these simple flavours form a fresh, nutritious hotpot - nothing like the heavier Lancashire version
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Soups and stews: Venison is a very lean meat – good for the heart but a little low on flavour so I've put in some bacon for the animal-fat lovers amongst us
The Do Something guide to collecting 'I am the curator of an exhibition no one visits'
Mackenzie Crook, Allegra McEvedy, Michel Faber and Pete Paphides on their collections