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Absolutely ticks every box at the biggest hamburger I've ever had would tick.

It came very natural to us to do some fantastic things with vegetables,

to make fireworks with vegetables.

We also need that pleasure of something beautifully arranged on a plate and go, wow, isn't that amazing?

This isn't a program about vegetarianism, but it is about meat-free food.

We won't be discussing the principles behind plant-based diets, but we will be celebrating its pleasures.

Because right now, vegetarian food, or perhaps it's better to describe it as food based around

vegetables, is where a lot of the pleasure and excitement in eating is to be found in the UK.

Sometimes it's been motivated by the issues as in Hugh Fernley Whittingstrels' conversion to eating less meat on display in his new veg book.

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