Take one, means take one!
Take one bite of any dish on the constantly changing menu, and you will find yourself in the hands of a master, someone who finds pure joy in Mr. Cole's products.
A small hipster joint near bohemian Kensington Market, it uses all the city's main ethnic communities as inspiration, taking one hero dish from each cuisine.
Waitress Yuli took one breakfast dish, called oligarch's autumn (buckwheat, scrambled eggs, yogurt, cream, fennel and a hot Yemenite dip), revamped it with tahini and nuts and renamed it Yuli's Spring.
One-nine-nine alpha, take one!
For now. "Your cooking is… erratic," my mother said with a kind smile one night, taking one bite of my pasta dish before pushing it away.
"The smallest amount of aioli you can make takes one egg yolk, and it's more than you need for this dish," Mr. Ripert said.
In this slide show I have taken one of my favorite Sunday brunches - bagel, lox and cream cheese - and applied this philosophy to the dish.
One and all, lend me your brains, for How to Eat – the Guardian blog that explores how best to eat the nation's favourite foods – is, this month, taking on one of the great unifying dishes of British cuisine, the fish finger sandwich.
I thought of how many cooks it would take to prepare a hundred birds for that one dish, and how many roaring fires and hand-turned spits to produce a hundred other dishes.
