Very satisfying to say, this cake is moist, nut-brown, earthy and squidgy. It has echoes of banana bread but feels more autumnal and much...

The season is ending, the first real rain has fallen and so here is a recipe to celebrate the official end of the Sardinian summer, and...

'Write me down as one who loved poetry and persimmons' This perfect epitaph by the Japanese poet Shiki (pinched from Jane Grigson's...