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After so many years of eating the rich, the taste has grown bland.

Swap a bland pork chop and limp kale for bold, sautéed kale topped with crispy, miso-seasoned ground pork.

He's described as being "a deceptively bland middle-aged man... trusted and respected by his subordinates and colleagues... who occasionally clashes with the intelligence bureaucracy and sometimes feels that professional duty compromises his personal honour".

With poultry or plant-based patties, you need to ensure they don’t turn out dry or bland.

Overall, with most paintings bland, unadventurous or ungainly, he just isn’t that good — perhaps unsurprising for a serious career that didn’t last much more than a decade.