Fried aubergine with orange blossom honey
31/08/2026
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Crisp outside, creamy inside and with a thread of warm honey. The trick isn’t the coating: it’s the cut, the soaking and the temperature of the oil.
From the fields, in writing
What you ask us by phone and on WhatsApp, answered properly: when each fruit is in season, how to keep it, and why ours doesn’t all look the same.
Espencat: roast aubergine and pepper, the Valencian way
31/08/2026
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Aubergine and pepper roasted whole, torn by hand and dressed with oil. Three ingredients, an hour in the oven and one of the best dishes of the summer.
Titaina del Cabanyal, the dish of Valencia’s fishermen
31/08/2026
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Tomato, pepper, tuna and pine nuts: four things and a whole dish. Titaina is what the fishermen of the Cabanyal ate, and it’s still one of the best things about summer.
How a box of fruit gets to your house without spoiling
31/08/2026
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Fifteen kilos of fruit travelling hundreds of kilometres sounds risky. What protects it isn’t the packaging: it’s that the journey lasts as little as possible.
How much the middlemen take
31/08/2026
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The gap between what a grower is paid and what you pay is enormous, and it isn’t because somebody is robbing anyone: there are simply many links. Here they are.
Why buy fruit directly from the grower
31/08/2026
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It isn’t rural romanticism: taking steps out between the tree and the table changes measurable things. Here they are, including the ones that don’t play in our favour.
Raw honey and pasteurised honey: what changes
31/08/2026
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Raw, natural, pure, artisan: a honey label is full of words with no legal definition. The difference that does exist is whether it has been heated or not.
Why orange blossom honey crystallises
31/08/2026
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A jar that goes solid and grainy is alarming the first time. It’s the opposite of what people fear: the honey that never crystallises is the suspicious one.
Why untreated fruit doesn’t all look alike
31/08/2026
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A direct-sale box doesn’t look like a supermarket tray, and that throws people the first time. What each mark is, which are normal and which aren’t.
Zesting the peel: when you can and when you can’t
31/08/2026
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«Use an untreated lemon», say the recipes, and hardly anyone knows what that means. When the peel is usable, how to check, and how to zest without bitterness.
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