Ludlow is just as exciting for local chefs and suppliers as it is for the thousands who visit the annual festival.

Chris Bradley invented this recipe for cooking at home and it is lovely made with pears or plums as well, so pick whatever is locally available.

This makes an enchantingly pretty supper party starter.

Lovely as a snack or canapé, or with salad as a first course.

In her first cookbook for seven years Madhur Jaffrey sets out to show that curries don’t have to be complicated.

My family can eat this every single day of the week: it is our soul food.

Eat this with plain rice and make the sauce as hot as you like.

Vegetables are often very simply prepared in southern India.

Prawns with garlic and chillies is easily one of my favourite first courses for dinner parties, one that I have served repeatedly over the years, says Madhur Jaffrey.

This is such a soothing rice dish – slightly sweet and salty, with just a hint of black pepper.