The brief from BBC Radio Cambridgeshire was simple: create a dish that sums up the area using the best locally sourced produce available.
Cornwall has the pasty, Bedfordshire’s got a clanger and Bury the black pudding – but Cambridge? Cambridge has… well, therein lay the problem. Our county is bereft of a classic.
Nettles don’t immediately spring to mind when thinking of this time of year and the bounty the season offers.
Tender milk fed lamb, wild garlic or the first crisp spears of asparagus, perhaps, but nettles? They’re certainly not at the top of many people’s spring essentials lists, or the bottom, come to think of it.
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