The taste of summer

Toby explains why and how he’s still harvesting tomatoes, runner beans and herbs into November

Torta salata, or savoury pie, is a mainstay for on-the-go eating in bars in Tuscany and is also served in slices as an aperitivo or as a starter for dinner. I love it as it’s stuffed with aromatic gre

This inspired menu takes comforting rustic flavours and transforms them into celebratory festive dishes to savour and share

SERVES 4 Ingredients 125g unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing120g dark chocolate, broken into small piecesPinch of sea salt100g Amarena cherries, roughly chopped, plus3 tbsp of the cherry syrup10

This impressive plan-ahead Christmas lunch from Flora Shedden is a mouthwatering mix of traditional recipes and deliciously unexpected flavours

It was while filming an episode of Lewis in an Oxford college garden that Tom Simpson fell in love – and within moments decided to abandon his peripatetic life in film and retrain as a garden designer