Chilled Garlic and Almond Soup with Grapes

We had been filming in a very beautiful fourteenth-century farmhouse up in the hills behind Calpe on the Costa Blanca with a mad, splendidly eccentric English winegrower called Peter Pateman. And to celebrate the event he had invited his chums round for a massive feast of roast suckling pig, a dish I normally adore. But it was near the end of the trip, my poor old liver had taken a bashing and I wasn’t really in the mood for such rich food. Besides, it was a hot day and you know how it is w