I find beans entrancing. Their splendid colours, shapes and shiny skins are jewel-like, beautiful and tactile. There are some recipes in which only dried beans, soaked overnight and cooked from ...

Huss is a catch-all name for most species of dogfish and catsharks. It’s known in fish and chip shops as rock salmon (or simply ‘rock’) but fishermen have always called it dogfish. Like eels, huss ...

Simon Hopkinson's latest book is an English-looking volume with a Francophile sensibility, inspired by a meal thrown together from leftover... Serves 4, as a light lunch or supper I like the mimicry ...