An all-time favourite Christmas dessert for so many Australian families, including my own, is a pavlova. In 2008 we spent six months in London for my husband’s work. We were living in Clerkenwell, which was just a hop, skip and jump away from Ottolenghi in Islington. I would make a weekly visit for a hot chocolate and admire the tiers of beautiful meringues on display. When friends and family came to visit from Australia, the very first place I would take them to was Ottoleng