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melting moments

I’LL BE THE first to admit that when chefs take a fairly prosaic food item, such as a toastie, and go all ‘chefy’ on it you can bet two things will happen. One, it’ll be more expensive and, two, they’ll overdo it and muck the whole thing up!

What many of these chefs fail to understand is this; you can’t improve on what is already a good thing. Not

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