apples

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31 July 2021 9:00 am

Listening to Trees A Crowd, a podcast exploring the ‘56(ish) native trees of the British Isles’, solved one of childhood’s…

Make it an applefest this Christmas — the best of the year’s cookbooks

23 November 2019 9:00 am

If it were not for a banker with a hangover, we would not have Eggs Benedict. Or so one of…

Tomatoes and melons from the garden of the Prince Bishop of Eichstatt (German school, 17th century)

Romance of the old kitchen garden

30 May 2015 9:00 am

Considerable areas of our memory are taken up with food: it might be the taste of Mother’s sponge, the melting…

Wild life

25 April 2015 9:00 am

 Laikipia When I was a boy in Devon we had an orchard. On a string of autumns, as the fruit…

Diary

16 August 2014 9:00 am

I made a welcome escape from sweltering Warsaw to the cloudy cool of Bodø, halfway up the coast of Norway,…