Eclectic haul: the Honey & Co hamper
(Picture: Press handout)Honey & Co deluxe Christmas hamper
Pictured at the top of the page, this is a non-traditional festive hamper and all the better for it. Top-quality pantry goodies from party snacks of smoked almonds to salt-roasted corn nuts, some Climpson & Sons coffee, sweetly-spiced bars of chocolate, and pots of summer chutney spiced with tongue-tingling Szechuan pepper and a strawberry and rose petal jam. The bottle of citrussy, lightly spiced Marrakech gin looks cool and tastes even better, and I love the chic and bright tea towel and notebook “for jotting down recipes”, too. Lovely idea. Come Christmas Day I’ll be serving the tins of Galician mussels in Spanish sauce, and the Octopus in garlic sauce, as a starter. There’s no way the sumac-spiced vanilla shortbread will last that long though — and I’ve already devoured the enormous gingerbread ‘tile’ biscuit. Sorry, guests.
