A recipe for a fresh, fragrant Middle-Eastern-flavoured dish that’s perfect for summer, plus a bit of background on how food got mixed up in my fiction. Some of my strongest memories from novels are those involving food, perhaps because it engages the senses so fully. I can still almost taste the toffee shocks in Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree, which swelled as you chewed until you couldn’t speak, and finally exploded in your mouth. Later, while studying French at university, I…..

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