RECIPE, FOOD STYLING AND STYLING GILL MELLER PHOTOGRAPHS ANDREW MONTGOMERY
Have you ever stood in a greenhouse or polytunnel full of tomatoes in August? It’s a multi-sensory experience. It’s the warmth that hits you first – a moist, hugging air that carries a fragrance so particular and so special that, for me, it evokes both joy and sadness. Then there are the vines themselves, standing side by side in pirouette-like forms. Sometimes they are trained to the sky by a single cord and seem impossibly tall given the pull of heavy fruit suspended from their delicate branches.