<a href="http://sanjidaoconnel.livejournal.com/1689.html">Sanjida O'Connell: Quick, Quick, Sloe</a>

This year’s crop of sloes has not been as bountiful as last year’s but the sloes have been fatter. The fruit of the blackthorn, they’re the ancestor of plums and so tart that a raw one makes your teeth tingle and your mouth corrugate.