Courgette Salad with Minty Tomato, Raisins and Pine Nuts

Some useless culinary information for you, just in case you didn’t read the intro properly. Iranians (together with quite a lot of Central Asia) believe that all food has hot or cold properties. That’s not as in ‘ouch – hot’ or ‘woah – cold’, but rather pertains to its effects on the metabolism (think Avicenna and the four humours). Some stuff – so-called hot food – races through the system while other less digestible food (‘cold’) moves very slowly. An imbalance of either can leave you fee