sorrel

"Stinging nettles are a come again plant. Cow parsley, sorrel too. Strangely you can pick a lot of salads now," he says.

So we end up sharing all types of rare herbs, sheep's sorrel, unusual peppers and so much more with our guests.

If I go to Sqirl, I really like the sorrel pesto rice bowl, or the frittata thing they do is beautiful.

However, in her quest to find another rare wild plant - a green-leaved herb related to rhubarb and sorrel, which grows only at the edge of beaches, or at the bottom of cliffs - she almost drowned.

The dish at the heart of the book is a dry-aged strip loin of beef with tomato and sorrel, and it is almost that simple a dish.