Food for thought

Across

1 Mild dairy product that’s often eaten by those on a slimming regime due to its low fat content (7, 6) 8 Aromatic plant used to add flavour in cooking (4) 9 Biblical food eaten by the Israelites in the desert (5)

10 Fruit used to make the dessert Poires Belle-Hélène (4) 13 Tropical fruit sometimes served with gammon or on pizza (9) 16 Spanish dish typically comprising 23D, seafood and chicken (6) 18 Type of seed often used to top bagels or hamburger buns (6) 19 Implement used to serve soup (5)

20 Cook meat by lightly browning and then cooking slowly in a closed pan with a little liquid (6) 22 Popular snack of fried potato slices (6) 27 Strong-tasting root that is used to flavour Pontefract cake sweets (9)

30 Small amount of liquid, typically Scotch whisky (4) 31 Popular food found in tins with tomato sauce (5) 32 Carbonated water often served with whisky or campari (4)

33 Dish of sausages served in batter (4-2-3-4)

Down

2 Edible green seed pods also known as ladies‘ fingers (4) 3 Kitchen implement used to shred vegetables (6) 4 Small, normally savoury, snack served at a drinks reception (6)

5 Slow cooked dish of meat and vegetables for instance (4)

6 Small prawn-like crustacean that is often preserved in pots with butter (6) 7 Fruit used to flavour Grand Marnier and Cointreau liqueurs (6) 11 Type of 8A used to flavour gravlax and pickles (4) 12 Blackthorn berry used to flavour gin (4)

14 Nut often partnered with maple syrup in cakes or ice cream (5) 15 Spanish, Arabic or Italian word for sauce (5) 17 Fruity beer made from malted barley (3) 18 Triple - - -, liqueur, made from the dried peel of 7D, that comes from Curaçao (3) 20 Spirit which takes its name from the Dutch for ’burnt wine’ (6) 21 Rotating device used for cooking meat (4) 23 Staple food grain used to make risotto (4) 24 Name for a dessert comprising ice cream, a sweet sauce, nuts and whipped cream (6) 25 Large bowl-shaped container from which you would serve soup (6) 26 Name for the meal you might eat during the late morning at weekends (6) 28 Starch used to make a pancake, and produced commercially in the form of ’pearls’ (4) 29 Cook in water at a high temperature (4)