Emma Hughes collects the best recipes from some of Britain’s best-loved chefs and food writers.
Street parties — bunting-decked, cake-laden, joyously singalong affairs — are as British as lighting the fire on a Sunday evening and saying ‘sorry’ when you mean ‘excuse me’. They were held to mark Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1887, and (after a period on the wrong side of the law after the First World War, when they were thought to be encouraging…