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Writing in 1891, in his cooking manual La Scienza in Cucina e L’arte di Mangiar Bene (Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well), Pellegrino Artusi introduces the potato as a tuber from the solanaceae (nightshade) family that was native to South America and introduced to Europe in the 16th century. He goes … Read more

Taberna Albricoque This fun, welcoming restaurant – a renovated tavern with traditional tiled floor in the Santa Apolónia neighbourhood – focuses on the flavours of the Algarve. Chef Bertílio Gomes’s family comes from this southern region, and his seasonal, constantly changing menu features dishes such as octopus with sweet potato and razor-clam soup, which evoke balmy … Read more

I knew straight away that something was wrong. I had arranged to go to an opera with a friend. She’s normally a chatty person but, when I got to our seats, she wasn’t saying anything. I asked her a few questions but she was monosyllabic in response. During the intermission we went out to the … Read more

It is not by design that I have come to meet the Devon-based ecological gardener Poppy Okotcha on the spring equinox, when day and night are equally balanced. It feels fitting. In her new book, A Wilder Way: How Gardens Grow Us, Okotcha describes how it is now that she rids her garden of last … Read more

The question I’m a man in my late 50s. My parents were teenagers when I was born. They married so I wouldn’t be illegitimate, it was the 1960s. My parents divorced. My mum and stepdad moved up north, my father remarried and stayed down south. My father and his wife have three children, now in … Read more

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/apr/13/do-all-wind-turbines-rotate-in-the-same-direction-if-so-why

Babies should not be put in a dark, quiet room for a nap but in a light room with background noise like a washing machine, an expert has said. Prof Helen Ball, a scientific adviser for the charity The Lullaby Trust who has carried out sleep research with more than 5,000 parents and babies at … Read more

‘It’s a Marmite place, you either love it or hate it,” says the lady making us coffee at Ness Café, as we gaze across the flat, arid landscape that is Dungeness beach, a chunk of Arizona on the Kent coast. Certainly it’s not for everyone. Some find it too bleak, depressing even. Others lean into … Read more

Golden Cap and the Anchor Inn, Seatown Drive down the tiny lane from Chideoak to Seatown and park at the Anchor Inn (theanchorinnseatown.co.uk). Buy water at the nearby Spar (you’ll need it) before ambling through the wood, across fields and up, up, up until – massively out of breath – you reach the top of … Read more

It’s a week until Easter and yes I am a little rosy cheeked at still going on about Easter eggs, but Terry’s has just launched an orange gooey egg to go head to head with Cadbury’s Creme Egg. This year sees a new addition to the Terry’s stable – a milk chocolate egg with orange … Read more