NORTHERN PLANNER

I think it’s worthwhile being proven wrong, so it’s with great delight that I learned that my sage advice about applying sliced salt to Aubergine, to draw out the bitter juices, is codswallop. In the Oxford Campanion to Food, Alan Davidson tells us that modern varieties of Aubergine have no bitter juices to draw out.

Aubergines are now officially an instaneous vegetable. Shame actually, I liked the ritual.