The bestselling author and former UK Children’s Laureate looks back on her low-key elopement to Vermont and a blissfully simple menu served at twilight

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IT’S the night of a Stuart-style banquet in the Lush Places community pub. We mustn’t be late, because Mr Grigg and I are the ones who persuaded Mr and Mrs Springbok and the rest of the pub committee

A food stylist and dinner party revivalist, Rosie trained as a chef before spending two years working in London kitchens. Obsessed by cookery books and TV programmes, she turned her passion into a car

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When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u