Recipes for Christmas baking (and breakfast), a festive taste test and dumplings with Jung Chang
This month, we share a table with the writer, Jung Chang, who tells us over bowls of dumplings about her 90-year-old mother who has spent lockdown in hospital in China, and about her new book, Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister. This year has brought its challenges for so many of us, and we hear from three people for whom 2020 will be particularly memorable: a bruised restaurateur, a radical chef and a cook-turned-campaigner tell us how the pandemic has changed their lives.
In this month’s essential OFM taste test, Ravinder Bhogal and Jay Rayner dive into the best and worst our festive high streets have to offer. While they share enthusiasm for some of our Christmas shopping bag, they are positively divided about others.
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