Month: July 2012

The Pleasures of Afternoon Tea

The Pleasures of Afternoon Tea

There’s no institution more quintessentially British than afternoon tea, a concept that travelled to the furthest reaches of the British Empire. And a concept so English that Victorian young ladies, invited to tea, were encouraged to fill up on bread and butter first. At the 

It’s Samphire Season!

It’s Samphire Season!

Samphire is up there with artichokes as a plant that doesn’t look like it was meant to be eaten, and with fiddlehead ferns as one of the most satisfying plants to forage. And, despite some abysmal weather, samphire season is well underway in the UK. 

Bedouin Fish

Bedouin Fish

When you think of the Bedouin, nomadic people who’ve been roaming the deserts of Arabia for well over five thousand years by most counts, the last dish you’d think of would be fish. Let alone fish with vegetables! But many Bedouin in coastal regions have