Appendix A: Meal prep, timing and tips

• Read through all the recipes first • Wash, cut and measure all ingredients first • Start cooking the things that take the longest first • Use a crocket pot to keep the soup warm • Meal prep and timing

3 hours before the first course is to be served

• Cut all vegetables for the soup and straccoto • Start the straccoto as this will take at least three hours • Mix the chickpea flour and water for the socca and cover • Finish cutting all vegetables • Mix muhammara, cover and chill

1 hour before first course is to be served

• Start soup • Wash, cut and dry romaine

Just before the first course

• Cook the socca • Mix the Negroni • Have all ingredients for Caesar ready for table side prep • Start the risotto • Serve the meal