When you think the combination of sausage and sugar pastry is as good as it gets, it's time to meet the grapes. According to a Hells Angel we spoke to researching the project, they are the ultimate road food. Modular and moorish their sweetness and acidity cuts through fatty meaty flavours and refreshes the palate. What foods these morsels be.

Later on this month we are cooking a heroic feast for 50 at the Brighton Festival. A literary theme is our only limit to creativity. For inspiration we tore straight into the library to research the greatest fictional meals since the dawn of time.

What do the following things have in common: sperm whale secretion, explosives, anaesthetic, fluorescein (the industrial dye used to turn the entire Chicago River green every St. Patrick's Day), sand from the Pyramids, love drugs, chocolate, 24 carat gold, glow-in-the-dark dust and gelatin?

The Bramble is about as quintessential an English cocktail as you can get. Traditionally it's a blend of gin, lemon juice and sugar finished with a sp...