A Somerset Fairy Tale (With a Cocktail at the End) Are you sitting comfortably? Then we shall begin... Every fairy tale contains an element of truth. As with all stories handed down through the years, however, they have a habit of acquiring a little extra sparkle in the retelling. Such is the tale of the Fig Leaf & Gooseberry Spritz. And like every good story ... Every recipe has a beginning. Sometimes it's a scribbled idea in a notebook. Sometimes it's inspired by a memora

There are certain things growing in the garden that you look at every year and think, surely I could do something with that. Fig leaves are one of mine. We all get terribly excited about the figs themselves. We wait for them to ripen, eat them with cheese, put them in tarts, roast them, turn them into chutney and generally make a great fuss of them. Meanwhile, the poor leaves are just standing there. So I started wondering what would happen if I brought them into the kitchen