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The unique landscape of Dartmoor is the beautiful canvas that inspires Babs Behan to create exquisite designs with natural dyes from foraged or home-grown plants

The French may have five mother sauces, but at breakfast two sauces rule. America’s tomato ketchup has a simple sweetness, but when it comes to complexity and depth of flavour, British brown sauce rul

Used in the construction of Florence’s Duomo and favoured by 19th-century architects and designers, Impruneta clay is as solid as rock, finds Arabella Youens

With high summer beckoning, John Lewis-Stempel reflects on the incomparable richness of pond life and the rewards of pausing to peer into the murky depths on a warm June afternoon