Meat was often cooked with spices in Medieval times. Serve this unusual but delicious roast chicken with mashed potatoes or crusty bread and a crisp green salad. Preheat the oven to 230C/450F/Gas 8.

Peel shrimp and devein, leaving tails intact. Reserve shells. Smash 1 clove garlic. In a medium bowl, toss shrimp with 2 tablespoons olive oil, ⅔ of the minced parsley, smashed garlic ...

Transfer to a roasting tin. Place the fillet in the centre of the roasting tin, arrange the whole garlic bulbs around the fillet and drizzle with a little oil. Roast for 23 minutes for medium-rare ...

The recipe calls for 20 (yes, 20) cloves of garlic, but since they’re left whole and simmered in white wine for an entire hour, they turn mellow, candylike and suffused with schmaltz (another ...