Celebrating seasonal, homegrown, and wild food
Lilacs are a real highlight of late spring, bursting with fragrance and colour all over the place. They come in a range of purple hues as well as some pink and white varieties too, and all are edible and delicious. Care should always be taken not to confuse them with superficially similar horse chestnut flowers [...]
Wild garlic shoots have been spotted in the south and it never takes Instagram long at all to catch on to the start of wild garlic season. As soon as the young shoots emerge across the south of England there's a frenzy of photographs and recipes and the excitement for a new year of foraging [...]
This week on Instagram I'm doing a virtual holiday where each day I'm sharing a memory of the time I've been lucky enough to spend in the Loire region of France over the years accompanied by a suggestion or prompt that people can use to join in. I’ve been thinking recently about how the current [...]
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