The worst summer job I had as a teenager was as a "roller girl" at a small peach-packing plant in rural south Jersey. It made a change from waitressing, but it was hellishly hot, hard labour, and we girls of the rollers were constantly covered in … [Read more...]
Late-summer recipes
Skip to recipes The dog days are passed, but we hope for one or two last barks. We know it’s coming, but we’re not yet ready to hand over to autumn. No need, just yet, for summer’s exuberance is still here in the late-summer harvest that is … [Read more...]
Cherries sour, cherries sweet
I have a thing for sour cherries. To my mind, the Morello cherry beats every sweet cherry going when it comes to something cooked. I spent teen-aged summers picking them from ladders in southern New Jersey orchards where tall trees flourished, and … [Read more...]
Those summertime blues
When I arrived in Britain in 1987, it was impossible to find blueberries here. Now they are available year round thanks to their recent super food status, and are even grown here, their season peaking in July and August when harvests from the … [Read more...]
Peas in the pod
Garden peas, picked fresh at that perfect petit pois stage of juicy, crisp sweetness, are something to experience at least once in a lifetime – and how good it would be to count on them once a year. Most fresh peas we buy with hope in the season are … [Read more...]
Elderflowers: champagne, cordial and a cake
There’s just time to make one more batch of elderflower cordial and champagne, with their inimitable fragrance of English summer – floral, yet also a little wild and very slightly musty. Nothing drinkable is more evocative of our hedgerows and … [Read more...]
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