1 LAMB CUTLETS
“Lamb is extremely expensive back home, so lamb cutlets are a luxury. When eating cutlets, you know you’re celebrating.”
2 CHILLIES
“One of my memories of my dad is that he used to eat chilli like cucumbers. Zhoug was a condiment we always had in the fridge growing up”
3 BRUSSELS SPROUTS
“Perhaps it’s because I wasn’t forced to eat them as a child that I love brussels sprouts now.”
4 PEARS
“There is nothing better than a firm-but-juicy autumn pear. I think they are underused in desserts.”
Food has always been about sharing, family and community for Michael Rantissi. Growing up in Tel Aviv, Israel, he would spend his days playing with neighbourhood children from a variety of cultural backgrounds, and enjoying shared meals at his own home and that of other local families.
“I have two brothers and two sisters, so with such a big family, it was always a shared meal,” Rantissi says. “On weekends, Mum would send us to stores that, rather than selling everything, would only have one thing. For example, we’d go
