Sam Bilton

It’s been a busy few weeks. The final edits are being made to my next book Fool’s Gold: The History of British Saffron (out in July...

Inspired by a recipe from Bartolomeo Scappi’s Opera (1577) Like many recipes of this period the original (which you can see below)...

‘Fortunes are made in the City of London out of sandwiches, yet to the average household a sandwich is merely two slices of bread and...

This recipe is based on one provided by Mrs Beeton for vegetable marrow jam. The only changes I have made to the original are the...

It’s been a while since I last grew courgettes (or zucchini as our American and Italian cousins like to call them). Despite being a...