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From biscuits to tiffin and traybakes: try these chocolatey teatime treats inspired by traditional Irish family favourites

Our columnist fondly looks back on the desserts that delighted our taste buds in the Seventies…

It’s out with winter blues and in with the blossoming prunus, unless it happens to be English pottery. Lucien de Guise finds out what Coalport brought to the tableware

THE CHEF AND RESTAURATEUR ABBY LEE RETURNS TO MALAYSIA AFTER UNDERGOING CANCER TREATMENT THAT AFFECTED ALL PARTS OF HER LIFE, INCLUDING THE THING SHE VALUED MOST: HER TASTE BUDS

Amateur botanist John Bradby Blake and his collaborators never completed their illustrated record of Chinese flora, but they still stoked Britain’s passion for the Asian country’s plants