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Tombet is a traditional vegetable dish from Majorca PICTURE: Aart Verrips

Tombet is a traditional vegetable dish from Majorca PICTURE: Aart Verrips

Published Dec 2, 2017

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How to make Alix Verrips's Tumbet

Tombet is a traditional vegetable dish from Majorca PICTURE: Aart Verrips

Alix Verrips has cooked on yachts, mansions and everywhere you can expect the 1% to live. 

Cooking for the wealthy, has given her so many great recipes, that she decided to share them with the world in her book, Brunch Across 11 Countries.

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