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Where the Dying Swan is about nature and spirit terribly at odds, delicious and beautiful food literally keeps body and soul together
Difficult to pronounce. But oh-so divine and easy to make
Like its more famous cousin, the chicken Kiev, the dish enjoyed its heyday at 1970s dinner parties
Serve them with coffee after a meal or in place of a mid-morning biscuit
There’s nothing I like more than a pudding that looks as if you’ve put in huge amounts of effort and skill, when the opposite is true
When it comes to comfort, flavor and texture, this is home cooking at its finest
The filling is anything but one-note: it is complicated and compulsive, and definitely very grown-up 
The displacement of dried fruit by chocolate is a symptom of our increasingly debased tastes
It forms a substantial part of a festive buffet, serves as a quiet supper or makes an impressive starter
