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Fred de Fossard

Pears included in Elizabethan recipes are typically ‘wardens’ – hardy varieties that must be cooked before eating, their flesh blushing with a red hue and softening into buttery deliciousness. Tudor d

In a John Behan bronze, collector Jacqueline O’Donovan, a child of the Irish diaspora, can sense the desperation of a starving people forced to flee their land

THIS MONTH Christmas cake

“One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb,” goes the old proverb. The meaning is simple: if you are going to be punished for a small crime, you may as well commit the bigger one. In the early