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Fiona Beckett

Fiona Beckett is an award-winning food and drink writer, wine columnist for the Guardian and author of 25 books, most recently Wine Lover’s Kitchen. She also publishes her own website matchingfoodandwine.com and is co-founder of the wine podcast Bâtonnage.

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Interview: Mauro Colagreco, Mirazur

He set his heart on becoming a chef at a young age – now Argentine-born Mauro Colagreco has been crowned the world’s best chef. Fiona Beckett discovers the secrets to Mirazur’s astounding success

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Super-ingredient: onions

They've been cultivated for 5,000 years, they're a stable ingredient of every major world cuisine, and they ward off disease. Fiona Beckett salutes the wondrous, ubiquitous onion

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Super-ingredient: butter

Butter has been around for millennia, and it has dozens of forms and thousands of uses. Just don’t keep it in the fridge

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Super-ingredient: salt

Who really understands the myriad complexities of sodium chloride?