Pinto beans simply seasoned with a chunk of fatback and a little salt and pepper bubbled inside a large cast-iron pot.

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"We're just using lime, some salt and a little bit of pepper, " says Forbes' daughter, Marjorie Dorsett of her mother's fish as it sizzles in hot oil.

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The traditional pasty contains ground or cubed beef, diced potato, turnip, salt and pepper, and little else and is baked in its hearty flour-based shell with a thick rolled edge.

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If you grind it with a hot pepper we call rocoto, and you put garlic and a little bit of salt and water, you get a blended mixture that is very good with boiled potatoes.

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Drizzle with a little olive oil and roll the lamb up in a spiral, seasoning the fatty side with salt and pepper as you roll.

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"All appear committed to the concept of sustainable development - they talk the talk about responsibility to future generations to varying degrees - but it is remarkable how little is made of protecting and improving the environment as an opportunity, not a burden, " Mr Pepper said.

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Pepper, I still have very mixed feelings, I'm still grumpy that I was paid so little for doing it.

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