Country Life 18 March 2020
Country Life 18 March 2020 discusses the wonders of smaller country homes, the ingredients needed to perfect a dream kitchen and the best mussel recipes to cook tonight.


A COLLECTOR’S HOME: Shawford House, Hampshire, has just been impeccably revived
MUSSEL MEMORY: Succulent and flavourful, they are a myriad of ways to eat mussels. Tom Parker Bowles reports
DREAM KITCHEN: All the ingredients you need to create perfection
SANDHILL: A idyll by Rosemary Alexander
MY FAVOURITE PAINTING: The CEO of Historic England picks a screenprint
ACTIVISM AND FARMING: Jamie Blackett laments the pressures activism puts on those who grow our food
WORMS: And the effort they put into enriching our soil
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TRAVEL: Beirut and the French Riviera
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