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Matt and Iain Pennington, The Ethicurean, Bristol

Comeback creation: one-year-fermented miso broth

Chefs (and brothers) Matt and Iain Pennington were determined to turn lockdown into a virtue. “It afforded us time to think,” says Matt, mainly about how staff could spend more time with fewer guests (social distancing has cut numbers to 30), explaining the methods that underpin the Ethicurean’s sustainable work – be that creative fermentation (vegetable charcuterie, anyone?) or using just-harvested produce from the adjacent walled garden.

In this idyllic Somerset spot, dinner now starts with a garden tour and miso broth served under its stone archway. Let out with birch sap and garnished with

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