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|title=Moro East
|author=Sam and Sam Clark
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|borrow=Yes
|pages=320
|publisher=Ebury Press
|date=1 Nov November 2007
|isbn=978-0091917777
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''Moro East'' is the third book from husband and wife chefs, Samantha and Samuel Clark - better, if somewhat confusingly known as Sam and Sam Clark. The inspiration for the first [[, ''The Moro Cookbook]] '', was brought about by their restaurant of that name in Clerkenwell. [[''Casa Moro: The Second Cookbook]] '' was inspired by their home in Spain, but this latest book comes from very different roots.
Imagine an area of land bordered on one side by the River Lea and on another by the Grand Union Canal. You'll have approached with care because you had to go through some rather insalubrious areas to get there but once you were over the bridge you were in the Manor Garden Allotments - a tiny part of the Eastern Mediterranean in East London - where the Clarks grew vegetables for seven years, but, perhaps more importantly became part of a community of Turks and Cypriots who showed them how to make use of every part of the plant. You'll notice that I've spoken of this in the past tense. Have the Clarks given up, moved on? No - the Manor Garden Allotments have been bulldozed to make way for a hockey stadium for the 2012 Olympics and this book shows the last year of vegetable growing on the site and the glorious food that has been eaten.
For another book where food is eaten almost straight from the land we can recommend [[A Taste of the Country]] by Jimmy Doherty. If allotments interest you then you will almost certainly enjoy Robin Shelton's [[Allotted Time]] and for a book which looks at making the most of every bit of food in the kitchen we think you might appreciate [[The New English Kitchen]] by Rose Prince.
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