Here's the thing about pastry. It doesn't forgive like other forms of baking. You can get away with a slightly overbaked cookie or even an underbaked cake center, yet pastries, those buttery layers of ...

Recently, I’ve been going on walks with a small apple pie tucked in my anorak pocket. In some of the wilder corners of the English countryside, and usually in a tempestuous mood, I’ve scaled boulders ...