Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Sweet sorrow

We needed this weekly hour of sweetness and taste

issue 29 October 2016

So, is that it? The end of sweetness, and the end of taste?

Physically speaking, those things will no doubt carry on, when The Great British Bake Off moves to Channel 4 next year. We’ll still take vicarious pleasure in the mouth-watering sweetness of someone’s ‘crème pat’. The taste of lavender will still ‘come through’ in a contestant’s 12 identical puff pastry miniatures.

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