Friends, with recipes: how a love of food brought my husband and I together, and helped us part

Though we are no longer together, we talk food every time we speak and always ask what the other is having for dinner Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email For our first date – a picnic on the grassy banks of the Molonglo River near Canberra – the man I would marry brought the tartan blanket (tick), the wine (tick), a crusty baguette (tick), the cheese (tick), and then the ka-boom of a chicken and grape salad he’d made from a recipe in a gourmet magazine. His score flew off the charts. I’d met no other male who browsed gastro porn for inspiration. His culinary romance drew me to him, deaf to what would ultimately become the cautionary tale of too many cooks spoiling the broth. Continue reading...

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