Tag: fig leaf

• Fig Cake with Fig Leaf Cream

  In Tangier, at the very edge of the casbah overlooking the strait, is a house called Dar Zero. An old property, with white, crenelated walls, this is where Samuel Pepys lived in 1683, during the English occupation of Tangier (1661-1684), when he was employed as a secretary to George Legge, Lord Dartmouth, who had been…

  lauramadeleine

  September 30, 2019

  Recipes, Writing

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