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How blogging about my £10 a week food shop helped me cope with life
When Jack Monroe lost her job she learnt how poverty isn't just having no heating, fridge or lighting, it's feeding your son one Weetabix with water. Then she started writing about itI'm a girl called...
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How to be a good dinner party host
It's not too hard: cook what you know, put out enough booze, and have proper napkins. So why do so many get it wrong?Since this is a "how to" issue of OFM, I thought I'd write a few notes on how to be...
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How to find your way around a wine list
Should you risk the house red? Can you trust the sommelier? What about vintage? David Williams explains allAvoid the second cheapestRestaurateurs have long since cottoned on to the practice, and on...
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Jamie Cullum: 'Great musicians are also great cooks'
The jazz musician's childhood food was a heady mix of his family's Burmese, Indian, Spanish and Jewish rootsMy mother was born in Burma but my grandfather on her side was Indian-Spanish. So I have this...
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Zaha Hadid: 'I'm seen as a Martian'
Over espressos and cigarettes in 1988, the architect talked about her childhood and where to get hummus in LondonIn 1988 – six years before her first building was made and 24 before becoming a Dame –...
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How to make fried chicken
Hot tips from street food specialists Ross Gardner and Justin Unsworth of Spit & RoastFor many traders, street food is a means to a more conventional end: you start out selling from the back of a...
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How to cook a proper full English breakfast
Tom Kerridge treats breakfast as seriously as any dish at his Michelin-starred pub. Here's how he gets the day off to the best startWhen it comes to the most important meal of the day, Tom Kerridge,...
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How to fillet a fish
Tim Hughes, chef-director of the Caprice group reveals the little tricks you need to know for a perfect filletTim Hughes would be handy to have by your side at your local fishmonger. "The more scales...
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How to make perfect cucumber sandwiches
Matt Hayes is head chef at the Wolseley where they make 200 portions of cucumber sandwiches a day. So if anyone knows, he does …The British have long associated elegance with understatement. Take...
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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 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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How to make perfect mashed potato
Olli Dabbous tells how to make the sinfully rich mashed potato that wows diners at Dabbous. Warning: contains three packs of butterTwo weeks after Dabbous opened in January 2012, it received a rare...
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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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Rachel Cooke: My life in restaurants
From student years in Pizza Express to romance at the Quality Chop House, milestones can be measured in passing food trends, says Rachel Cooke• Read more of the best food writing in Observer Food...
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Food bank Britain: life below the line
The use of food banks has tripled in 12 months, as even people in work struggle to feed themselves and their familiesTucked away on the New King's Road in Fulham, west London, there is a delicatessen...
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In the heart of the Amazon with Alex Atala
South America's best known chef is on a mission to highlight the indigenous foods of the Amazon – and to transform Brazilian cookingManaus, Brazil, where the Rio Negro and Solimões rivers meet and the...
View ArticleBrazil's star chef Alex Atala visits the Amazon – video
Alex Atala is one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people on the planet and the number one chef in South America. He champions the people and produce of the Amazon and here he travels to São...
View ArticleBrazil's star chef Alex Atala visits the Amazon – gallery
Alex Atala is one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people on the planet and the number one chef in South America. His work championing the people and produce from the Amazon is key to his...
View ArticlePedigree pigs – in pictures
Photographer Dan Burn-Forti shot this selection of prizewinning animals for this Sunday's Observer Food Monthly
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