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Wine: how to spot a real bargain
Discounts aren't always what they seem – but there are ways to buy good wine on a budgetThe British like a bargain almost as much as we like a drink. Our lives have been distorted by a condition...
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Why I'm so bored with superfoods | Jay Rayner
The dreary cult of superfoods makes too many foolish promises. And it ruins a good lunchI was scrolling through my spam email folder one day dreaming about how life would be if its contents were only...
View ArticleOFM: show us photos of your favourite comfort food
What food is helping you through the winter? Share photos of your favourite comfort food via GuardianWitnessGuardian readers
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Why Silicon Valley wants to hack the food industry
Can you make mayonnaise without eggs or meat without killing? Tech firms and investors believe they can transform food the way Apple changed phonesWe stood in an airy San Francisco warehouse, staring...
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Naughty but nice: chefs' guilty pleasures
Think you can tell what cooks like to eat from their Twitter feed or menu? Think again. Seven chefs reveal their cravings for Frazzles, chip butties and moreMonica Galetti, sous chef at Le Gavroche and...
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Derek Jarman: 'So Mum covered me in cooking oil. Then Dad came home'
The film director recalled strange food experiences of his youth in a 1987 interviewDerek Jarman had a small flat above a theatre on Charing Cross Road, where I interviewed him in 1987 over a takeaway...
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Tinie Tempah: 'I've got two kitchens – but I've never made a romantic meal'
The rapper has happy memories of stockfish in south London and bushmeat in Nigeria, but has yet to master the Boffi kitchen in his swish new place in ShoreditchWhen you have Nigerian parents, you often...
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Frozen in time: the Beatles in Taunton, 15 September 1967
Amy and James Smedley invited the band to their fish and chip shop. Three days later the Magical Mystery Tour dropped in …The Beatles hadn't been in Taunton for four years – they played their last gig...
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Nigel Slater: why Big Macs are my guilty pleasure
For the tingling luxury of instant gratification in a low-blood-sugar crisis you can't beat dirty burgerMy walk of shame is more of a ravenous dash. An excited run to the parked car. Yes, it is about...
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Who knew there was so much in my kitchen cupboard?
A long-overdue kitchen clear-out has left me looking for recipes that use marmalade, rooibos tea and Italy's most badly designed pastaThe size of a person's kitchen has nothing to do with their ability...
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California wine: why the independents rule
An obsession with ripeness made the state's wines like Michael Bay films – crude and overblown. But things are getting betterUp until very recently, if you'd asked me to nominate my least favourite...
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Middle Eastern foods taste test
Yotam Ottolenghi tastes and rates baklava, baba ganoush, falafel, hummus, tabbouleh and stuffed vine leavesBaklavaSelfridgesArabica Baklava Selection450g, £15, selfridges.comThe layers of pastry are...
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Nigel Slater: five recipes for fritters
Recipes for chickpea and beetroot patties, salt cod fritters, spinach and potato fritters, pea and bacon frittersA little fritter, rolled in crumbs, fried till crisp and wolfed (almost) straight from...
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Welcome to February's Observer Food Monthly
With chefs' guilty pleasures, Tinie Tempah and an interview plus recipes from Jack Monroe, this month's issue is full of treatsIf ever there was a person in the right place at the right time it is Jack...
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Jack Monroe: 'I'm a lefty, liberal, lezzer cook'
The blogger behind A Girl Called Jack on food poverty, bullying and standing up to Richard Littlejohn• Read recipes from Jack Monroe's book hereWhen I arrive at her flat in Southend-on-Sea Jack Monroe...
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10 budget-busting Jack Monroe recipes
From soup to cookies, exclusive recipes from her book A Girl Called JackMexican chocolate chilli and black bean soupI knocked up this soup last winter. It combines onions and garlic for detoxifying...
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How to make perfect pancakes
Every day is pancake day in Eric Lanlard's native Brittany. Here, he shares his secrets for foolproof crepesWe had them almost every day growing up," recalls master patissier Eric Lanlard. "You'd go to...
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The end of the world is nigh. Time for a bacon sandwich | Jay Rayner
After Armageddon, survivors will need the essentials of comfort food: Findus crispy pancakes and Angel DelightWith the dank, fetid winds of manmade climate change blowing our way and worries over...
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Life without sugar: one family's 30-day challenge
Sugar is now at centre of the battleground between food and health. How easy would it be to cut it out of your diet?As a mother of four I am not sure how I am supposed to feel about sugar. If I believe...
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Gary Neville: 'David Beckham cooked all the time. Stir-fries, a lot of pasta'
The footballer turned pundit and cafe owner recalls pie and chips before the game as a young fan and pre-match meals at Old Trafford as a playerI first persuaded my dad to take me to Old Trafford with...
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