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Food for Thought Steve Maskery e-mailed us to tell us what scampers through his mind when he sets to work in the kitchen... I think of women - well I would, wouldn't I, I'm a bloke. But I think of women when I'm cooking. When making pastry, you need a light touch, getting lots of air into it to make it light and melt-in-the-mouth. So I think of all the women I've ever fallen in love with. Sweet thoughts, ah the gorgeous Georgina, beautiful Belinda, voluptuous Valerie. It makes the perfect pie. But when making bread, however, I think of women. All the pesky women that have come into my life, broken my heart and run off with someone else. Callous Caroline, mean Melanie, obstreperous Oonagh. That way it's easy to knead the dough with a degree of intensity, releasing the gluten and making the perfect loaf. Try it sometime. What memories, sad, happy or irreverent, do certain foods revive for you? What foods were you forced to each as a child, which you still cannot bear to touch as a fully-fledged adult? If not food, what else sends your memory reeling back to a time, place and person inextricably linked with what you have seen, heard or even smelt?
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