Article: Food & Drink: Simply irresistible Mark Hix shows how to whip up an elegant strawberry feast, without the fuss. Photographs by Jason Lowe

STRAWBERRIES rarely taste as good as when you have picked or grown them yourself. Warmed by the sun and sweetly fragrant, it's hard to resist eating them straightaway. Long journeys in refrigerated transport across the Channel kill what flavour they originally had.

A trip to a pick-your-own farm with the kids makes a good day out, as well - hopefully - as a way of gathering berries to take home. Let them do the hard work and you can supervise the havoc on the way round. With any luck, if they can pick faster than they can eat, you'll harvest enough from the day for several meals. Don't keep the strawberries for more than a day or two; any you can't eat fairly quickly can be turned into jam ...

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