Strawberry fields forever
Jul 14, 2021
3 minutes
Tom Parker Bowles
A RICH man whose teeth, constitution and heart were all stainless steel might reasonably look back to life in the mid 18th century with longing, but not if he liked strawberries,’ writes Jane Grigson in Good Things. Because the plump and buxom fruits we so adore, the very quintessence of English summer, are a relatively modern invention—an inspired fusion of the Americas, North and South.
We had, of course, our own European species, the wild
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