Saffron Strands

Celeriac It's the week before Christmas.  The roast is ordered, the pudding is sorted, the wines are bought. But it's the fo...

Oranges from Sicily As usual my end of year gift choices for food lovers focuses on modestly priced gifts from small independent bus...

English Quince Quince, a fruit of the Cydonia oblonga tree, is gritty, hard and astringent.  Only its fragrance hints at what it can b...

White bean and chicory soup When the chill air of late autumn arrives, so too does my craving for the bitter qualities of chicories.  ...

Wet Walnuts Working the ground last autumn left me in no doubt that squirrels were using the badly neglected plot as a winter larder. ...

The Tiber River from Trastevere, Rome It was the children's voices drifting up from the courtyard that roused us from sleep that f...