You can’t make old friends

In today’s newsletter, old friends, new recipes and a larger than usual market haul.

More than thirty years since we first met in a crowded lecture hall, we’re still striding ahead together: blue jeans, blue coats, grey scarf (V), grey wrap (me).

As someone whose happiest moments are spent gathering groups of friends round loud tables for long lunches or dinners that stretch into the next morning, re-airing old stories where no explanati…