Carciofi alla Brace

“During a visit to one of our tomato suppliers near Naples I was invited to an impromptu lunch. On the menu were artichokes, just cut from the fields, to be cooked on a small metal charcoal grill which had already been lit. The artichokes were ‘beaten’ to open the leaves a little in order to season them well inside, and they were put on the grill. The flavour still lingers on my palate!”