Jackson Boxer’s vegan recipe for poached leeks with pickled pear and hazelnuts

Poach your leeks to perfection, then pair with pickled pears and nutty miso I have a great respect for the leek, which is possibly the most demanding vegetable in its need to be freshly cooked before consumption.

A warm leek, fresh from the pot, is an ethereal, collapsing sigh of diaphanous veils, whereas cold it can all too easily become a slippery and almost slimy mess of hopelessness. Jackson Boxer is chef/owner…