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No nonsense in the kitchen

The forthright food columnist Rachel Cooke has little patience with faddy eaters, ‘meditative’ kitchen tasks or the craze for Portuguese custard tarts

Portuguese pastéis de nata – far inferior to a British egg custard tart, according to Rachel Cooke. [Getty Images]

  • Kitchen Person: Notes on Cooking and Eating

    Rachel Cooke

    Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp. 256, £20

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