One of my favourite-ever recipes is Peta Mathias’ chocolate and fig fruitcake, in which the fruit is soaked in orange juice and brandy (drinking the leftover fig-infused liquid after you’ve ...

On the coast of the Irish Sea, the headland of Drumanagh once served as a trading post two millennia ago. The Irish fort connected the island nation to England and northern Europe where the Roman ...

Suetonius, a Roman historian from the first and second ... and green figs of the second crop.” This recipe from the first century does indeed make a fresh, moist, hand-pressed cheese that ...