My favorite recipes

This is first of two reports Linda Marler, the Gazette recipe columnist, plans to make on their trip to Wales to visit a daughter and family over the holidays.

Traveling from East Anglia, the part of England that borders the English Channel and the North Sea, we left strictly agricultural lands to cross the English Midlands. Birmingham and Coventry are busy industrial cities, although there is beautiful farmland there, too. Coventry was famously firebombed by waves of German bombers during World War II, which demolished and burned their beautiful cathedral as well as many defense and munitions...