Less well known than ceps or morels, St George’s are amongst the finest wild mushrooms, with a firm texture, appealing mealy smell and distinctive flavour.
What was in season 146 years ago? Here’s Mrs Beeton’s list of Things in Season in April
Sometimes the simplest words turn out to hide concepts of thorny complexity. Putting together my seasonal food cloud for April, I struggled with the question of whether to include Mediterranean oranges. Oranges are one of the joys of winter and early spring, especially the peculiarly sharp sweetness of Sicilian blood oranges. But should they really [...]
Seasonal food cloud for April (, 513k) – now available to download for easy reference and printing. Ideal for your fridge, noticeboard or back pocket! Seasonal food can’t be bettered – it’s fresher, tastier, often more local and cheaper. The supermarkets may have tried their hardest to break our relationship with the seasons, offering every [...]
March in England and the peach seems an impossibly distant and exotic fruit, its heady summer aroma almost unimaginable. Out of season peaches always disappoint and the sickly syrupy sweetness of the tinned fruit is altogether different. But late March in Suffolk and peach trees, most of them tight against a south-facing wall for warmth, [...]
The British are unusual in distinguishing apples for eating raw and for cooking. After years of decline, the Bramley, our best known cooker is enjoying new popularity.
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