"You have to be quick to get hold of damsons, though, and it's best to know someone with a tree. "
-Diana Henry, Roast Figs, Sugar Snow
We began our...
I got the idea for cooking the cucumber and coating it in a yoghurt and mayonnaise sauce from Lesley Blanch’s classic, Round the World in Eighty Dishes. She’s a...
"A flower is a weed with an advertising budget"
-Rory Sutherland, The Spectator
Not all flowers are edible, but some are and these can be used in fo...
May you have the hindsight to know where you've been
the foresight to know where you're going
and the insight to know when you're going too far
Traditional I...
Today is the festival of the battle of the oranges in Ivrea in Italy. The festival commemorates the old, familiar story of oppressed rising up. But in this annu...
"First off, there's the petite evening accessory... these tend to be as intricately embellished as a Fabergé egg and... only marginally more useful.
But, gosh,...
This month Felicia Bettin tells us all about how Christmas is celebrated, from a culinary point of view, in Germany. Recipes for some of the goodies described f...
Saucy Dressings aims to complete this post - four weeks' menus and recipes, plus a few spare by the end of 2020.
Every year an additional week's menu, with t...
Why? Michaelmas is the feast day of saints Michael, Gabriel, Urial, and Raphael, the feast of the archangels, celebrated on 29 September. It marks the end of th...
