THE PROPER SUMMER TABLE
There’s a particular kind of table that only really makes sense in summer, set outdoors or with the doors thrown open, food that looks as good cold as it...
There’s a particular kind of table that only really makes sense in summer, set outdoors or with the doors thrown open, food that looks as good cold as it...
There’s a particular satisfaction in peering inside someone else’s picnic basket, especially when that someone happens to know rather a lot about good food. Lance Forman has spent a...
There are very few evenings in the calendar that genuinely unite a nation’s living rooms, but the World Cup Final manages it every four years without fail. At Forman...
There is a particular kind of optimism that arrives the moment the British sun makes an appearance: gardens are swept, charcoal is bought in slightly excessive quantities, and somebody,...
Wimbledon entertaining requires a certain discipline. Tennis, after all, should remain the centre of attention. This is not the moment for elaborate three-course lunches or anything demanding prolonged time...
English Wine Week arrives at precisely the right moment in the British calendar. Longer evenings, tables moved outdoors at the slightest suggestion of sun, and bottles opened with considerably...
Father’s Day deserves more consideration than a rushed reservation or a last-minute bottle purchased on the way home. It is an occasion for proper breakfasts, long lunches that become...
There are few pleasures more distinctly British than a picnic assembled with care and carried outdoors at the first suggestion of sun. Blankets reappear, rosé is chilled, and suddenly,...
What is Wild Fish Season? May marks the beginning of the wild fishing season, that brief, luminous window each year when the River Tweed opens up, and nature offers...
Why is Friday traditionally fish night? The tradition of eating fish on Fridays stretches back centuries; it has become so deeply woven into British culture. The Friday night fish...
May is, without question, the finest month in the British calendar. Two bank holidays, the first wild fish of the season appearing in our smokehouse, the garden furniture finally...
There’s something about a picnic that feels inherently optimistic: the first stretch of sun, a blanket on the grass, and a table (of sorts) built entirely around good food....