How to eat: shepherd's pie

This month, How to Eat is settling down on the sofa with a steaming plate of shepherd’s pie, peas and diced carrots, a mug of tea and, naturally, a slice of thickly buttered bread for mopping up. How else would you eat this meal?It is not often that one might feel sorry for Jeffrey Archer. But his revulsion at the state of the shepherd’s pie at HMP Belmarsh, as described in A Prison Diary, Hell, Volume I, is surely vivid enough to elicit that rare flicker of sympathy? “The meat