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Where the Story Starts

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Feb 05, 2024
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On this week’s episode of Cooking the Books, Dina Macki, the feted winner of last year’s Jane Grigson Trust Awards whose first book has beaten every other author in the UK to Number 1 in ALL books, tells me where her story starts.

And it wasn’t Oman.

Yes, it was a shoo-in that the food of Oman, an undiscovered cuisine that nods to a legacy of secret kitch…

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