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How to make sushi at home
It's easier than you think, says Yuki Gomi. And don't forget your hairdryer"They love the precision." But sushi isn't too tricky to make at home, says Yuki, "if you have a few essential tools and...
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Nigel Slater: Welcome to OFM's July issue
Nigel Slater introduces Observer Food Monthly's How To issue. We ask the experts how to fillet a fish, make perfect mash and full English, and eat on just £10 a weekHave you ever wondered which is the...
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How to start your own brewery
Evin O'Riordain made his first homebrew six years ago. Now he's making some of the best beer in Britain at his own breweryBritain is full of breweries. According to figures from the Campaign for Real...
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How to make your own sourdough starter
Justin Piers Gellatly, who made his name as the in-house baker at St John, on the essentials for soughdough – takes a week, lasts for agesAny discussion of the best bread in London always begins, and...
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Nigel Slater: welcome to Observer Food Monthly's April issue
Brilliant spring recipes and the chance to vote in our annual awards – and win some fantastic prizesThis year marks the 10th anniversary of the OFM Food Awards, supported by Cuisinart, in which you get...
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Cook it Raw: 'For chefs, it's like free-falling into the unknown'
Gather together the world's best chefs, take them somewhere remote and ask them to cook only from what's around them. Eight of the world's finest chefs recall their experience of Cook it RawRené...
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Lionel Shriver: 'Almost no one has a normal relationship with food'
Lionel Shriver's new novel is intensely concerned with food, family and obesity. Over lunch, she talks about its semi-autobiographical roots, the class divide over eating – and her passion for...
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How we stopped worrying and learned to love veg
Time was when many of our vegetables were tinned or tedious. Now we eat six types of lettuce and can spot a posh tomato at 10 pacesA story appeared in the newspapers recently courtesy of the Marks...
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Why do men make such hard work of cooking?
Women, who still do the lion's share of the work at home, want kitchen shortcuts – but men who write cookbooks love onerous tasksIt was Michael Pollan who gave us the unbeatable 21st-century maxim:...
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Nigel Slater's vegetable recipes
Chicory with grapes, honey and mustard, gratin of kale and almonds, harissa carrots… Some vegetable dishes are too good to put on the sideThe vegetable dishes I find the most useful are those which can...
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What's it like to run a restaurant with your family?
Are arguments on the menu? Five family food partnerships tell us their secretsDarina & Rachel Allen Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law at the Ballymaloe Cookery School, Co Cork; both writers,...
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Simon Hopkinson: I drank Sarson's vinegar from the bottle from a young age
The food writer and cook on life as an apprentice, his dad's cooking and his collection of mixersMy earliest memory is sucking a wine gum on Sidmouth beach and a wasp, attracted by the smell, flying...
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What's the best meal I've ever eaten?
Was it the 42 courses at El Bulli or that freshly boiled crab in West Mersea? Or maybe it's all about the people who were thereAs a restaurant critic there's one question – other than "how do you live...
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Bruno Loubet and the way of the vegetable
The French chef's new restaurant isn't vegetarian – but it does give veg more than equal billing• Try Bruno Loubet's Grain Store recipesAnybody who has eaten Bruno Loubet's famed hare royale dish at...
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Recipes from Bruno Loubet's new restaurant
From a corn and quinoa tamale to a chocolate brownie and pear tart, recipes from the French chef's new restaurant Grain Store. It's not vegetarian – but the veg gets equal star billingPotato and rye...
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The best wines to serve with vegetable dishes
The trick is to find flavours that complement your food or contrast with itI've been having a lot of fun over the past few months with Niki Segnit's The Flavour Thesaurus, a Christmas present that has...
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Fries with Matt Dillon
Hitting the bars of Kansas with the Rumble Fish star back in 1987On a day off from playing a bank robber in the film Kansas in 1987, Matt Dillon was keen to drive me around the movie's location, a town...
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Nigel Slater: Welcome to OFM's May issue
Nigel Slater introduces Observer Food Monthly's almost meat-free isssueThe baking renaissance aside, there has been no greater change to our national diet than the part that vegetables are now playing....
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The beginner's guide to growing your own veg
Organic farmer Alice Holden's advice on what to plant when• Try Alice Holden's courgette risotto recipeTen years ago, Alice Holden was figuring out what to do with her life. She'd just left university...
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Courgette risotto and tempura courgette flowers recipe
Alice Holden's family recipe might tempt you to grow your own vegCourgette flowers are difficult to come by unless you know a grower or grow them yourself. Like many of the best things in life, they...
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