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Best beach barbecue recipes — and four golden rules for cooking at the beach
Everything tastes better when it's cooked outdoors, and even more so when it's on the beach. Award-winning food writer Jack Adair Bevan shares his best beach barbecue recipes; photos shot for Country Life on location in Port Gaverne, Cornwall by Benjamin Pryor.
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Curious Questions: What is Worcestershire sauce’s secret ingredient?
The world-famous Worcestershire sauce owes a great deal to a product that comes a very, very long way from Worcestershire itself, as Martin Fone discovers.
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How to make the ultimate Bloody Mary prawn cocktail
Country Life's kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson shares a sensational recipe which makes the most of the cherry tomatoes now in season.
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Tom Parker Bowles: Portugal's food is just as modest, understated and utterly bewitching as the rest of the country
Portuguese cuisine is vibrant and enchanting, says Tom Parker Bowles.
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How to make redcurrant crumble bars
Melanie Johnson shares a recipe to make the most of redcurrants, a sharp but tasty seasonal fruit.
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5 scrumptious strawberry recipes to make watching Wimbledon even better
A British summer without strawberries would be unthinkable.
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How to eat seasonally in July, by Tom Parker Bowles
The chef and food writer Tom Parker Bowles on the culinary highlights of July, from artichoke to watercress — plus a recipe which will persuade you that broad beans aren't all bad.
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How raw milk is fighting its way back to our tables: 'One taste and you'll be hooked... there's no going back'
Raw milk has been vilified in the press and by food agencies and competitor industries for decades, but its superior taste and health benefits demand we take a second look, argues Tom Parker Bowles.
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How to make strawberry and lemon cake, topped with chamomile whipped cream
Melanie Johnson is here with what is ostensibly a cake, but is in fact a truck to drive straight through your early-summer diet plans.
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How to make gnocchi with peas, spinach, asparagus and mozzarella
If ever a vegetable's diminutive size belied the flavour it delivers, it's the pea. Melanie Johnson shares a recipe to make the most of the fresh crop.
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How to make a 'carrot cake' swiss roll
Melanie Johnson shares her recipe for an unusual — but delicious — take on carrot cake.
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Perry: The pear cider dubbed 'the English champagne' that's been an English passion for centuries
Not to be confused with cider, the art of perry-making is more than a craft — it’s an English passion. Ben Lerwill meets some of our best producers of fermented pear juice.
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How to make tarragon chicken with garlic-roasted new potatoes
Our kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson shares a beautiful creamy tarragon chicken recipe.
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Tom Parker Bowles: Why I detested coriander — and how my loathing turned to total adoration
Having trodden the fine line between love and hate, Tom Parker Bowles finds that what once tasted vile is now sweetly seductive: yes, he has fallen in lust with coriander
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How to make crusted salmon with watercress and wasabi
Our kitchen garden cook Melanie Johnson shares a beautiful way to cook salmon that makes the most of the new season's watercress.
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Perfect Coronation street party recipes, from Mary Berry's ultimate scones to Tom Parker Bowles' irresistible coronation chicken
Emma Hughes collects the best Platinum Jubilee street party recipes from some of Britain's best-loved chefs and food writers.
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Tom Parker Bowles: The langoustine dish that 'was one of my grandmother’s favourites', as The King told me. And it's one of his, too
Scampi evokes easy pasta dishes or deep-fried pub grub, but call them langoustines and you have a dish fit for a king — or, indeed, The King, says Tom Parker Bowles.
