Primordial Soup

The idea for title of this dish came about when I was at a picnic lunch at Gray’s Inn - more an al fresco lunch than a picnic really - and there was a very jolly woman there called Judith Rich, who had worked for many years as a professor of biology at the Natural History Museum in London. We were discussing the origins of life and she said, ‘I thought we all came from primordial soup,’ and I thought, What a great title for a dish. I’ve played about with it in my head for a