Tom Parker Bowles on peaches, his mother’s favourite fruit… and how to turn them into a dessert that’s ‘summer on a plate’

‘This column was very much her idea,’ says our food columnist Tom Parker Bowles of his piece for this week’s guest editor. And how could he refuse? She is not only The Duchess of Cornwall, but also his mother.

This article appears in the 13th July 2022 special issue of Country Life, guest-edited by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall. See what else is inside. 

‘Do I dare eat a peach?’ asked J. Alfred Prufrock in his eponymous love song, T. S. Eliot’s paean to male…