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THE MONTH garden-facing learning kitchen. Coming this spring:

COOKERY COURSES
WITH A DIFFERENCE

The Garden Museum in Lambeth, south London,
offers ingredient-focused food masterclasses in its

8 MARCH Food writer Kathy Slack covers the
fundamentals of growing your own food – whether
you have a plot of land or a window box.
OF Bistro Lotte 5 APRIL Food historian Sam Bilton goes back in time
Frome, Somerset;
with stories and Easter baking recipes, including hot
bistrolottefrome.co.uk
WHERE This dapper bistro with rooms cross buns, Italian Easter pie and fig cake.
RESTAURANT
on one of the pretty town’s narrow 3 MAY Explore unusual Bangladeshi vegetables
streets has been warmly embraced locally. and try gajor galwa, a spiced carrot pudding, with
WHO Friendly owner Charlotte (Lotte) Evans and chef and food writer Dina Begum.
her team bring a true taste of France to Somerset.
7 JUNE Learn about ingredients from Mauritius
THE SETTING Lotte’s, as it’s known, is in a gorgeous
and the Indian Ocean islands with chef
building: an Edwardian house long since converted
Selina Periampillai, while making aubergine
into commercial premises with the beautiful
chickpea cari, roti and creole tomato sauce.
original signage (for Grocery & Provision Stores)
Half-day courses, £85; gardenmuseum.org.uk
intact. Ornate tiles, stained glass, enamel lamps
and bentwood chairs add to the Gallic mood.
THE DISHES Lunch ushers in croque monsieur or
galettes, while dinner might start with a textbook Learn about
Bangladeshi
In association with The Good Food Guide
French onion soup topped with a melting gruyère
produce with
croûton. A main course of gigot of lamb in a tarragon Dina Begum
and red wine jus, and desserts of profiteroles
or French apple tart continue the theme. Low-
intervention wines are available by the carafe.
PRICE About £29 for a three-course dinner,
excluding drinks.
VERDICT The kind of authentic, welcoming bistro
we all want on our doorstep.

Buy The Good Food Guide 2020 (£17.99) in Waitrose,
at thegoodfoodguide.co.uk and in all good bookshops

Menu of the month
A SPICE-LADEN FEAST TO FIGHT OFF THE COLD
Did you know…?
In Iceland, Husband’s

Day (Bóndadagur) is
celebrated on 25
January and Wife’s Day
(Konudagur) on 24

February. Both are
marked in a similar way
to Valentine’s Day, with
Gill Meller’s onion bhajis Ross Dobson’s fragrant lamb Poached rhubarb and orange respective partners
with yogurt and goat’s and orzo casserole, made pudding, served with giving gifts and cooking
cheese dip, p43 in the slow cooker, p94 coconut yogurt, p69 for each other.