See the Sweetness

Guardian Weekend – Part of a series of 6 articles on taste and cooking with co-author Peter Barham There is a world where sugar is orange, honey is yellow and saccharine is a violent shade of pink. That world is the one inhabited by sufferers of synesthia –...

With a Pinch of Salt

Guardian Weekend – Part of a series of 6 articles on taste and cooking with co-author Peter Barham The idea of adding a pinch of salt to enhance the flavour of food is a fairly recent one. Our ancestors didn’t go for such subtleties. When they put salt in...