Sublime

The flours I use come from small, artisan mills such as Shipton Mill in Tetbury, Gloucestershire (which also imports specialist ciabatta and 00 flour from Italy) and Bacheldre Watermill in Wales.

Aubergine and Ricotta Tartine

‘Yarg’ is simply ‘Gray’ spelled backwards, the cheese being named after the artisan cheesemakers Alan and Jenny Gray, who found a 1615 recipe for a nettle-wrapped semi-hard cheese in a book in their attic.

Pithivier

be headed up by a married couple.

Grace Macaulay, then: seventeen, small and plump, with skin that went brown by the end of May. Her hair was black and oily, and had the hot consoling scent of an animal in summer. She disliked books, and was by nature a thief if she found a thing to be beautiful, but not hers. She didn’t know she couldn’t sing. She was inclined to be cross.

In the tearoom there is a sober veneration for unadorned rusticity, for the greatness to be found in the most restrained expression of the humble and simple.