For generations, the British allotment calendar has been built around a fairly dependable assumption: spring warms gradually, summer is pleasantly warm rather than intensely hot, rain arrives reasonably regularly, and the main growing season runs from spring through to early autumn.

A military ration has to survive heat, cold, rough handling and months - or sometimes years - in storage. It must also pass a more human test: a soldier in the field needs more than just calories; good food boost morale, provides a valuable rest bite and fuels the body and sole for the things to come. Army ration packs are often treated as novelties: cardboard boxes and olive-green pouches opened for online taste tests. In reality, they are carefully engineered compromises. E

Pot-au-Feu Few films have celebrated food with the reverence and sensuality of La Passion de Dodin Bouffant, released internationally as The Taste of Things. Directed by Trần Anh Hùng and starring Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel, the film is a love story told through the language of classical French cooking. Set in the late nineteenth century, it follows gourmet Dodin Bouffant and his extraordinary cook, Eugénie, whose decades-long relationship is expressed less through w

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