Table Talk

Shots with everything

Lisa Hilton tries indigestible mac ’n’ cheese at a venue that should have gone the way of the tzars

Please sit down

Take a moment to enjoy your plot, says Hephzibah Anderson

Summer ‘drille

Hannah Betts chooses floaty frocks and espadrilles

The call of the wild

Hunting for the pot is now strictly a hobby, but you can fake it, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Poop poop purchases

Thomas Woodham-Smith goes shopping for the dealer’s friend, a whale on wheels

Infinite enjoyment

Duff Cooper understood wine’s power as ‘firm friend and wise councillor’

The terrible south

Claudia Savage-Gore crosses town to go the extra mile for Hector

Bloody vegans

Patrick Galbraith on the complex ethics of butter substitutes

Only collect

The key to successful selling is to cultivate collectors

Crake and ales

Patrick Galbraith hears a rare bird but fails with the rod