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By Alastair Little and Richard Whittington
Published 1995
Fattoush, the omnipresent salad throughout the Middle East which uses up day-old bread, can be pretty grim. Encouraged towards mediocrity by beastly fashion, its worst misconceptions can look and taste like garbage, rather like those horrid thin soups bulked with stale lumps of baguette you used to get in low-grade French pensions.
This version of fattoush has moved a few miles on down the salad road and is altogether more elegant, the bread present only as crunchy spiced crumbs to