PHOTOGRAPH: MIKE ENGLISH. FOOD STYLING: MONIQUE LANE.
STYLING: REBECCA NEWPORT
"My grandparents bought an old, dilapidated fishing cottage that they never lived in but restored for family parties. It was in Benicia, near San Francisco in northern California, and it had a long wharf that stretched out into Martinez Bay. We’d place tables down the centre of it, upon which we all dined on a special fish stew called cioppino, served with garlic bread and good Napa wine. Once, we seated and served more than 60 people down the length of that wharf. Only a few fell off…