John Dory with mashed potato

Continental or flat-leaf parsley is a comparative newcomer to Britain. I distinctly remember the first time it was sighted as a rare summer migrant passing through Berwick Street market about twenty years ago. It was very exciting, because all the cookery books I’d read assured me that it had a much finer flavour than the curly English variety. This is true and it is used pretty universally in London restaurant kitchens these days, as well as being fairly widely available from the major sup