"And if you've a glut of apples, then go straight to the fruit book".
It tastes as if you were scraping spoonfuls straight from the fruit.
I don't care if you have squeezed the stuff straight from citrus fruit grown in your very own organic orangery, with every sip you're consuming DHMO.
There is something very pleasing about picking fruit straight from the bush, warmed by the sun and bursting with colourful juice and sweetness.
"My first paid job was in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough - a boat chase went straight through my fruit and veg stall.
The prudent would have the fruit straight up, but for a dramatic finish, go for the flambé: strawberries and banana slices under soaring flames from ignited brandy and spicy-sweet Chartreuse.
This past weekend, I put them in a sausage stew, a pie and a pan of beetroot soup; they're a friend in the kitchen, as well as straight from the fruit bowl.
Overflowing with servants – at Tring Park, down the road, footmen were required to carry cherry trees to the table, that diners might pick their fruit straight from the branch – and run to a routine as immutable as marble, growing up in such a house was like living in a gilded cage.
But the past few years for the fruit straight outta Cupertino have been good ones.
