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the next day was delicious. Like a good perfume, a distinct flavour with strong associations can transport you right back to a different place - suddenly it's not an overcast, chilly May, it's a warm, late-summer day and we are all outside tossing

When I first started growing shallots I did so on the advice of Sam, on our allotment (aged 90 he was still tending his plot twice a day). He told me to plant shallots on the shortest day and harvest them on the longest. I'm a bit more haphazard