Blog - organic

Every few years a spice becomes fashionable and reaches the shelves before anyone quite knows what to do with it. Right now it is the turn of za'atar and sumac, the two cornerstones of Middle Eastern cooking. Most people buy the jar, use it once on a bowl of hummus and leave it at the back of the cu..

Every late summer a fruit turns up in the shop that people pick up, look at and put straight back in the crate: it looks like a large green grape, but it smells of kiwi. It is the kiwiberry, or kiwiño, and almost everyone tries it for the first time because someone has told them you eat it whole, wi..