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Everyone put what they've got in the middle and will share out the treats.

That's midnight in the dorm at Mallory Towers, just in case you weren't an Enid Blighten addict. As a child I relish the illicit feasts in

fictional boarding schools almost as much as I greedily appreciated my mums and

my grandma's cooking.

Boarding schools were in a different universe to the one I lived in,

but that was part of the romance of those meals.

A romance we're trying to capture in this week's food program.

The delectable delights of island picnics, banquets,

secret ingredients, and those afternoon teas with talking badgers and moles that fired our

imagination when we were young when reading seized our souls and lit up the

world. I remember reading Harry Potter. I really liked descriptions of

all of the foods which were quite magical. I like the chocolate frogs that

used to hop across the tables or the obscure flavors of jelly beans beans but that's really stuck with me.

This is nice look the attic was a lovely place to play the large round

colored pumpkins made beautiful chairs and tables. The red peppers and the onions

dangled overhead, the hands in the venison hung in their paper wrappings, and

all the bunches of dried herbs, the spicy herbs for cooking, and the bitter herbs for medicine gave the place

a dusty spicy smell.

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