Saffron Strands

Panettone from The Little Bread Pedlar As usual my end of year gift choices for food lovers focuses on modestly priced gifts from sma...

A page from Sally Clarke 30 Ingredients (original photograph by Tessa Traeger) Time for my annual food-book roundup.  This year I'...

The Orchard at the end of October When we first took our allotment the orchard always felt like it was off-limits.  There were the ...

Spring restaurant There's a freshly-picked quince on the table. It's there because it's seasonal, its fragrance is exqui...

Seed saving - Sunflowers Rays of late summer sun pierced the canopy of the tree.  The shady path curved gently right, its rough surfac...

Rooftop view, Lisbon Lisbon in the last week of September.  Four days of pure blue skies, daytime temperatures around 28C, balmy eveni...