{"id":10637,"date":"2026-10-06T20:34:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T18:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milola.com\/?p=10637"},"modified":"2026-10-07T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T07:37:00","slug":"one-table-not-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milola.com\/en\/one-table-not-two\/","title":{"rendered":"One Table, Not Two"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"10637\" class=\"elementor elementor-10637 elementor-10568\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0dabe7c e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0dabe7c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-454c948 elementor-pagination-type-bullets elementor-arrows-position-inside elementor-pagination-position-outside elementor-widget elementor-widget-loop-carousel\" data-id=\"454c948\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;template_id&quot;:6066,&quot;_skin&quot;:&quot;post&quot;,&quot;slides_to_show&quot;:&quot;3&quot;,&quot;slides_to_show_tablet&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;slides_to_show_mobile&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;slides_to_scroll&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;edit_handle_selector&quot;:&quot;.elementor-loop-container&quot;,&quot;autoplay&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;autoplay_speed&quot;:5000,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;pause_on_interaction&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;infinite&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;speed&quot;:500,&quot;offset_sides&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;arrows&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;pagination&quot;:&quot;bullets&quot;,&quot;image_spacing_custom&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:10,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;image_spacing_custom_tablet&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;image_spacing_custom_mobile&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]}}\" data-widget_type=\"loop-carousel.post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper elementor-loop-container elementor-grid\" role=\"list\" dir=\"ltr\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-wrapper\" aria-live=\"off\">\n\t\t<style id=\"loop-6066\"><\/style>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-swiper-button elementor-swiper-button-prev\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"Previous\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"eicon-chevron-left\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-swiper-button elementor-swiper-button-next\" role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"Next\">\n\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"eicon-chevron-right\"><\/i>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-pagination\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c3ce333 e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"c3ce333\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3123e69 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3123e69\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Cooking for someone with different dietary needs can feel limiting. Until you discover all the possibilities it opens up.<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55d6fb6 e-con-full e-flex wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"55d6fb6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a26ac39 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a26ac39\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are recipes we make almost without thinking.<\/span><\/p><p>We know which flour to use. How long a dough needs. Which ingredient adds moisture, which gives structure, which makes something crisp.<\/p><p>Or perhaps we know none of that. We just know the recipe works.<\/p><p>Until one day, someone sits down at our table and can\u2019t eat one of those things.<\/p><p>Suddenly, the recipe we know no longer works as written.<\/p><p>We can see that as a problem.<\/p><p>Or we can get curious.<\/p><h5><i>So what do we do now?<\/i><\/h5><p>For someone who loves cooking, that question can be the beginning of something surprisingly fun.<\/p><p>For me, it certainly was.<\/p><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10594\" src=\"http:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-4-1024x683.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-4-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-4-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-4-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-4-1200x800.webp 1200w, https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-4.webp 1344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3995860 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3995860\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><b>When the usual answer stops working<\/b><\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bc62dc6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bc62dc6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cooking involves a lot of repetition.<\/span><\/p><p>We learn a technique, a combination, a proportion. We discover that it works and add it to our repertoire.<\/p><p>But cooking is also about experimenting.<\/p><p>What happens if I change this?<\/p><p>What if I use that?<\/p><p>How can I get this texture another way?<\/p><p>What if, instead of trying to recreate the same recipe, I start again?<\/p><h5>Creativity in the kitchen often begins when we can no longer do things the way we always have.<\/h5><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because that\u2019s when we have to look at ingredients again.<\/span><\/p><p>Not as a list to follow, but as a set of possibilities.<\/p><p>An almond stops being simply something we add to a cake and becomes moisture, fat, flavour and texture.<\/p><p>A seed can add crunch.<\/p><p>Oats can bring softness.<\/p><p>Teff can deepen the flavour of cocoa.<\/p><p>Buckwheat can add a depth of flavour that wasn\u2019t there before.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And little by little, we stop asking only what we can take away.<\/span><\/p><p>We start asking what we can make.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10582\" src=\"http:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-1024x683.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-1200x800.webp 1200w, https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa.webp 1344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b072a2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6b072a2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><b>This is how cooking has always worked<\/b><\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d60b1ff elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d60b1ff\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cooking has never really been about having every possible ingredient at our disposal.<\/span><\/p><p>We cook with what we have.<\/p><p>With what grows nearby. What\u2019s in season. What we can preserve. What we\u2019ve learnt from the people who cooked before us.<\/p><p>So much of the way we cook came about in exactly this way.<\/p><p>Fermenting, drying, pickling, grinding, toasting, slow cooking. Finding ways to turn what was available into something extraordinary.<\/p><p>Cooking is full of creative responses to particular circumstances.<\/p><p>Not because a restriction is something to wish for.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And not because anyone who cooks is obliged to turn it into an adventure.<\/span><\/p><p>Simply because, when we love cooking, being faced with a new question can awaken something we know very well:<\/p><h5>the urge to experiment.<\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8142f84 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8142f84\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><b>And then new ingredients find their way into our kitchens<\/b><\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c75c5a6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c75c5a6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps we buy chickpea, teff, millet or sorghum flour for the first time.<\/span><\/p><p>Or we discover what happens when we toast hazelnuts before adding them to the dough.<\/p><p>We begin to understand that two flours that seemed interchangeable can behave in completely different ways.<\/p><p>We discover that a particular texture doesn\u2019t necessarily depend on a single ingredient.<\/p><p>We try. We get it wrong. We change the proportions. We try again.<\/p><p>And sometimes something even more interesting happens.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The recipe we only made because someone couldn\u2019t eat the original turns out to be the one we prefer.<\/span><\/p><p>It isn\u2019t a copy.<\/p><p>It isn\u2019t the special version.<\/p><p>We don\u2019t need to explain what\u2019s missing before we serve it.<\/p><h5>It\u2019s simply a recipe worth keeping.<\/h5><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10588\" src=\"http:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-6-1024x683.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-6-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-6-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-6-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-6-1200x800.webp 1200w, https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-6.webp 1344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ef1792 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1ef1792\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><b>Some discoveries are meant to be shared<\/b><\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9f4ba3d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9f4ba3d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are eight of us around a table. One person can\u2019t eat gluten.<\/span><\/p><p>We can make the usual dessert and find a second option for them. Sometimes that will be the best solution. And that\u2019s absolutely fine.<\/p><p>But we can also ask a different question:<\/p><p>What if we made one extraordinary dessert that all eight of us could share?<\/p><h5><\/h5><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not one that\u2019s good for gluten-free.<\/span><\/p><p>Not one whose main achievement is that everyone can eat it.<\/p><p>One we would put in the middle of the table even if nobody had any dietary restrictions at all.<\/p><p>Because it\u2019s delicious.<\/p><p>That small shift completely changes where we begin.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re no longer thinking about what we need to make for that person.<\/span><\/p><p>We\u2019re thinking about what all of us would like to eat.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4028cff elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4028cff\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><b>One table, not two<\/b><\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f0b1f30 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f0b1f30\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s a cake in the middle.<\/span><\/p><p>Or some biscuits.<\/p><p>Or a loaf of bread.<\/p><p>Someone cuts a slice. Someone else takes a piece. Someone asks if there\u2019s any left.<\/p><p>Nobody asks which one is theirs.<\/p><p>There isn\u2019t one thing for everyone and something else set aside.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s just food.<\/span><\/p><h5>One table, not two.<\/h5><p>It won\u2019t always be possible, and it doesn\u2019t have to be. Sometimes making different things is simply the most sensible thing to do.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/milola.com\/en\/the-generous-table\/\">Generosity<\/a> isn\u2019t about turning every meal into an exercise in perfection.<\/p><p>But when we cook in a way that allows more people to share the same thing, something lovely happens.<\/p><p>And not only for the person who might otherwise have needed a separate option.<\/p><h5>The table becomes more interesting for everyone.<\/h5><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10591\" src=\"http:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-5-1024x683.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-5-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-5-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-5-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-5-1200x800.webp 1200w, https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-5.webp 1344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-adeab03 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"adeab03\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2><b>Cooking for more people can expand our repertoire<\/b><\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ad14ec9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ad14ec9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps that\u2019s the paradox.<\/span><\/p><p>At first, it feels as though we have fewer possibilities.<\/p><p>An ingredient disappears. A familiar recipe no longer works. One door closes.<\/p><p>But then we start looking, and others open.<\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ingredients we didn\u2019t know.<\/span><br \/>Techniques we\u2019d never tried.<br \/>Flavours we\u2019d never combined.<br \/>Recipes we probably would never have made.<\/p><p><strong>And suddenly, instead of having fewer options, we have more.<\/strong><\/p><p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/milola.com\/en\/cooking-wheat-free\/\"><em>Not Everything Has to Be Wheat,<\/em><\/a> we explored what happens when we stop seeing other ingredients simply as substitutes. Perhaps limitations can work in much the same way.<\/p><h5>Sometimes, cooking for someone else takes us somewhere we wouldn\u2019t have gone on our own.<\/h5><p>And that\u2019s where the discoveries begin.<\/p><p>Because perhaps one of the loveliest things about cooking is precisely this:<\/p><h5>thinking we\u2019re looking for a solution and finding a new possibility instead.<\/h5><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10597\" src=\"http:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-3-1024x683.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-3-1024x683.webp 1024w, https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-3-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-3-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-3-1200x800.webp 1200w, https:\/\/milola.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/una-mesa-3.webp 1344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7a11a3b e-flex e-con-boxed wpr-particle-no wpr-jarallax-no wpr-parallax-no wpr-sticky-section-no wpr-column-slider-no wpr-equal-height-no e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"7a11a3b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooking for someone with different dietary needs can feel limiting. Until you discover all the possibilities it opens up. There are recipes we make almost without thinking. We know which flour to use. How long a dough needs. Which ingredient adds moisture, which gives structure, which makes something crisp. Or perhaps we know none of that. We just know the recipe works. Until one day, someone sits down at our table and can\u2019t eat one of those things. Suddenly, the recipe we know no longer works as written. We can see that as a problem. Or we can get curious. So what do we do now? For someone who loves cooking, that question can be the beginning of something surprisingly fun. For me, it certainly was. When the usual answer stops working Cooking involves a lot of repetition. We learn a technique, a combination, a proportion. We discover that it works and add it to our repertoire. But cooking is also about experimenting. What happens if I change this? What if I use that? How can I get this texture another way? What if, instead of trying to recreate the same recipe, I start again? Creativity in the kitchen often begins when we can no longer do things the way we always have. Because that\u2019s when we have to look at ingredients again. Not as a list to follow, but as a set of possibilities. An almond stops being simply something we add to a cake and becomes moisture, fat, flavour and texture. A seed can add crunch. Oats can bring softness. Teff can deepen the flavour of cocoa. Buckwheat can add a depth of flavour that wasn\u2019t there before. And little by little, we stop asking only what we can take away. We start asking what we can make. This is how cooking has always worked Cooking has never really been about having every possible ingredient at our disposal. We cook with what we have. With what grows nearby. What\u2019s in season. What we can preserve. What we\u2019ve learnt from the people who cooked before us. So much of the way we cook came about in exactly this way. Fermenting, drying, pickling, grinding, toasting, slow cooking. Finding ways to turn what was available into something extraordinary. Cooking is full of creative responses to particular circumstances. Not because a restriction is something to wish for. And not because anyone who cooks is obliged to turn it into an adventure. Simply because, when we love cooking, being faced with a new question can awaken something we know very well: the urge to experiment. And then new ingredients find their way into our kitchens Perhaps we buy chickpea, teff, millet or sorghum flour for the first time. Or we discover what happens when we toast hazelnuts before adding them to the dough. We begin to understand that two flours that seemed interchangeable can behave in completely different ways. We discover that a particular texture doesn\u2019t necessarily depend on a single ingredient. We try. We get it wrong. We change the proportions. We try again. And sometimes something even more interesting happens. The recipe we only made because someone couldn\u2019t eat the original turns out to be the one we prefer. It isn\u2019t a copy. It isn\u2019t the special version. We don\u2019t need to explain what\u2019s missing before we serve it. It\u2019s simply a recipe worth keeping. Some discoveries are meant to be shared There are eight of us around a table. One person can\u2019t eat gluten. We can make the usual dessert and find a second option for them. Sometimes that will be the best solution. And that\u2019s absolutely fine. But we can also ask a different question: What if we made one extraordinary dessert that all eight of us could share? Not one that\u2019s good for gluten-free. Not one whose main achievement is that everyone can eat it. One we would put in the middle of the table even if nobody had any dietary restrictions at all. Because it\u2019s delicious. That small shift completely changes where we begin. We\u2019re no longer thinking about what we need to make for that person. We\u2019re thinking about what all of us would like to eat. One table, not two There\u2019s a cake in the middle. Or some biscuits. Or a loaf of bread. Someone cuts a slice. Someone else takes a piece. Someone asks if there\u2019s any left. Nobody asks which one is theirs. There isn\u2019t one thing for everyone and something else set aside. There\u2019s just food. One table, not two. It won\u2019t always be possible, and it doesn\u2019t have to be. Sometimes making different things is simply the most sensible thing to do. Generosity isn\u2019t about turning every meal into an exercise in perfection. But when we cook in a way that allows more people to share the same thing, something lovely happens. And not only for the person who might otherwise have needed a separate option. The table becomes more interesting for everyone. Cooking for more people can expand our repertoire Perhaps that\u2019s the paradox. At first, it feels as though we have fewer possibilities. An ingredient disappears. A familiar recipe no longer works. One door closes. But then we start looking, and others open. Ingredients we didn\u2019t know.Techniques we\u2019d never tried.Flavours we\u2019d never combined.Recipes we probably would never have made. And suddenly, instead of having fewer options, we have more. In Not Everything Has to Be Wheat, we explored what happens when we stop seeing other ingredients simply as substitutes. Perhaps limitations can work in much the same way. Sometimes, cooking for someone else takes us somewhere we wouldn\u2019t have gone on our own. And that\u2019s where the discoveries begin. 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