The Best Grapefruit Recipes: Cake, Cocktails And Crisp Asian Salads telegraph.co.uk

Here are the grapefruits I have known: a glassful of grapefruit granita, its bitterness enhanced by Campari, its melting shards the most refreshing thing on a sweltering day; a bowlful of tinned grapefruit segments, the height of sophistication in 1970s hotels (and the fanciest breakfast my granny would serve me in the freezing kitchen of her council house); the draughts of grapefruit juice I downed during my first pregnancy; a halved pink grapefruit and a boiled egg – the meal I most look forward to after a week of over-rich restaurant meals or demanding recipe testing.