Sublime

‘the morals of the

To prepare salted anchovies for eating you need to brush away the salt, rinse and then open them out like a butterfly in order to ease away the bone. Once boned, blot, lay in a shallow dish, cover with olive oil and use within 3 days. A faff, but you are rewarded with fat, pink fillets of a quality and flavour usually found in only the most expensi

Truffles grow a few centimeters under the ground, on the roots of certain oak or hazelnut trees. During the season, from November until March, they can be tracked down by nose, providing you have sensitive enough equipment. The supreme truffle detector is the pig, who is born with a fondness for the taste, and whose sense of smell in this case is s

After swimming another few miles, my taste buds began picking up on a change in the consistency of the water.

They basically tasted like a hug and smelt like happiness.

If you want to eat wild fish with the lowest-possible fossil carbon footprint, stick to sardines. The mean for all seafood is stunningly high—700 mL/kg (nearly a full wine bottle of diesel fuel)—and the maxima for some wild shrimp and lobsters are, incredibly, more than 10 L/kg (and that includes a great deal of inedible shells!).[43] This means th