Lunch with Lord Bath

We’d never cooked lunch in a kitchen dominated by a psychedelic painting of Noah’s ark before, but then we’d never cooked Sunday lunch at Longleat for a character as colourful as Lord Bath. Colourful is a word which pretty much sums up the whole experience, from the first glasses of Omar Khayyam, as Indian sparkling wine, to the mass eviction of the entire house when a fire alarm was somehow set off half way through our revelry. There’s not many settings which live up to the gloriousness of our cookery editor Mridula Baljekar’s Punjabi cooking, but Longleat proved itself to be above and beyond so to speak, and so the classic cooking of the Punjabi region of India was served to one of the last bastions of English eccentricity in the country, on the comfort of his own fantastic painted dining room.

	Mridula cooked for Jerry Hall at her home for a birthday party
Tony and Cherie Blair's Annual Garden Party at No.10 Downing Street.