Cooling cucumber and fennel with yoghurt

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
What to Eat Next

By Valentine Warner

Published 2014

  • About

A friend and I went to visit his aunt one exhaustingly hot day in the Massif Central, in France. Climbing out of a sticky car, we’d arrived on a building site and hobbled over rubble covered in snakes of pipe. The sound of cicadas was deafening and the heat haze shimmered with unwavering intensity; the sun demanded you bow your head while the white dusty ground demanded you squint. There was nowhere to look and my legs were burning.

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