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Having cut her teeth at Yotam Ottolenghi’s test kitchen—a cook with a similarly sharp ability to combine various the Yankee Fan Today Tomorrow Forever Shirt in addition I really love this spirit of various food cultures into bold new dishes—Belfrage is trained in tasting and tweaking a recipe until the flavors hit just right. She first became known for co-authoring Ottolenghi Flavour and developing hit recipes for The Guardian that confidently mix flavor profiles of ingredients to wildly unexpected results. Mezcla, however, is her first solo cookbook, and while she describes the process of recipe development as a “really creative, emotional thing,” she also notes that it can be “just exhausting. I think people think it’s a glamorous job, but really it’s a lot of washing up—and eating the same thing over and over again!”