Food

Orient Express British Pullman

When a leather wallet containing an ‘Invitation to board’ drops on your doormat, along with an Itinerary, explaining check-in details, what to wear and a little of what to expect, you begin to get excited.  It’s not until you arrive on Platform 2 at Victoria…

From ground to plate – the story of a summer truffle

Somewhere in a wood, its exact location shrouded in secrecy, ‘black diamonds’, ‘culinary gold’ ‘fairy apple’ ‘black queen’ ‘gem of poor lands’ ‘fragrant nugget’ and the ‘black pearl’ are found.  Their Latin name is ‘Tuber aestivum’ but we know them as truffles, and it’s here in South…