The Friday 5 #15

A great white wine buy, how to grow salad in your kitchen and July’s brilliant cookbook giveaway by Ottolenghi protegée Ixta Belfrage.

Greetings from beautiful Northumberland! I’ve been up here judging a martini competition - as you do - but am now happily marooned on the Hepple estate as all trains to the south of England have been cancelled this morning.

It’s no great hardship because, as you can see from the photo above, Northumberland is stunning. Just as wild and beautiful as the L…