Normally, the night before my brother does a cookery demonstration, I get a phone call. ‘Have you decided what to cook yet?’ ‘No, I’ll think of something tomorrow.’ ‘But you’re on tomorrow afternoon. Don’t you think you should get something together?’ ‘It’ll be fine. I’ll get something out of the fridge at work and come [...]
At the turn of the last century, rhubarb growers in the area roughly between Leeds, Bradford and Wakefield in West Yorkshire produced ninety percent of the world’s rhubarb, forcing slender and pale stalks for the markets at Spitallfields or Covent Garden. The Rhubarb Express bore crates of Yorkshire rhubarb to the capital until well into [...]