FAT: ISSUE 012

Creamy gratin, oxtail stew, chocolate ganache and more indulgences in this unapologetically luscious issue.

fried smelts

These are salty, crispy but yielding little things, that need to be served with icy beer or a dry sparkling wine. As a kid I probably washed these down with a cold orange Crush—that still seems like an ideal pairing now.

shiny chocolate ganache

Ganache is not much more than melted chocolate with cream in it to keep it flowy. Oh and for shine, you add butter. Gets better and better, doesn't it?

tibetan butter tea

Each batch of butter tea finished quickly and it took forever to brew another batch of the salty and slightly oily tea, or so it seemed when I had to wait.

oxtail stew

I grew up eating oxtail, a fatty, silky meat cooked on the bone, that produces an incomparably luscious, slightly gelatinous sauce or broth.

fries and mayo

The thing is, you can't successfully transport french fries home. Solution: fry them at home! Not an epiphany but don't we all shy away? We needn't...

fat

FAT. It's where it's at.