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The Key to Great Meatballs

Balls of meat. Genius.

Once we‘d found a way to cut meat into small enough pieces we soon realised that we could save ourselves the awful bother of tearing and chewing by simply squidging the meat back together and roasting it on a stick.

Some form of meatball seems to exist in just about every cuisine around the world. They pre-date their modern rival, the hamburger, by…