A wine-producing region of Canada, in southern Nova Scotia. Best known for wine produced from frozen grapes, or icewine, and full-bodied reds. Wines are also made from apples and berry fruits from the region's huge orchards.
Potatoes cut into thin rounds and baked in layers with butter to accompany roasted meats and poultry. They should be baked and brown on the outside, soft on the inside. They are then turned upside down, turned out of the dish and cut in wedges like a cake. Invented for Anna Deslions, 19th C courtesan.
A heart-shaped heirloom tomato weighing about 500 g (1 lb) and with a distinctive deep pink colour. The plants bears fruits with juicy flesh and good flavour in mid season. It is said to have been handed down to a woman in Oregon through several generations of her Russian family.
Anatto seeds are fried in lard to extract the colour. The seeds are then discarded and the lard is used in cooking.
A large, crisp, acid cooking apple with excellent storage qualities raised around 1857 in Leicester by Samuel Greatorex who named it after his daughter who died in 1868, probably a cross between Blenheim Orange and Bess Pool. The golden skin is flushed, striped and speckled with pinkish-red and it retains its shape when cooked. It gained the Royal Horticultural Society First Class Certificate in 1868. This apple also produces a pretty blossom. It is a late-season apple harvested from early- to mid-October in South-East England, is stored and is at its best between November and April.
Patagonian toothfish. A fish with a taste similar to swordfish and tuna, fished in the Southern Atlantic and Southern Ocean.
Patagonian toothfish. A fish with a taste similar to swordfish and tuna, fished in the Southern Atlantic and Southern Ocean.
