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May

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British Seasonal Food
British Seasonal Food

By Mark Hix

Published 2008

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Saltmarsh or Shetland LAMB, ASPARAGUS plucked from the Suffolk marshes, HERITAGE NEW POTATOES not seen for a generation or so...

Other Ingredients not to be Missed

  • Salmon
  • Sea trout
  • Razor clams
  • Welsh cockles
  • Rook
  • Gull’s eggs
  • Sea beet
  • Sea kale
  • New season’s garlic
  • Garlic leaves
  • St Georges’s mushrooms
  • Pennywort
  • Purple-sprouting broccoli
  • Watercress
  • Outdoor rhubarb

May is the beginning of the green season for me - and I’m not talking Greenpeace and eco-friendly stuff here. Our own season for asparagus, peas, beans and leaves is about to begin and last a couple months or so, triggering off all those springtime culinary thoughts.

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