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The 20 best red wines for Christmas
From under £4 to £40 – red wines to suit every budget this Christmas• Interactive hamper: find the best Christmas food and drinkRed wines under £10Aldi Toro Loco Tempranillo, Utiel-Requena, Spain...
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The 20 best Christmas white wines
Wines to suit every pocket for the festive season• Interactive hamper: find the best Christmas food and drinkWhites under £10Sainsbury's Taste the Difference Chilean Sauvignon Blanc, Casablanca, Chile...
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Jay Rayner | If it's worth doing well, it's worth doing slowly
Put down that book of express, easy recipes and give in to the alchemy of proper cookingPut the words "express" and "cooking" into Amazon and you get 42 pages of book listings including, most recently,...
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Margaritas with Peter Cook
The great comedian on TV ads and EL Wisty – over a mostly liquid meal in 1989After spending his day writing satire (for Private Eye, unpaid) about Hillsborough, Peter Cook was forlornly sitting at the...
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OFM awards 2012: a night to remember
The stars were out for awards night – but a schoolgirl was the evening's real starIt is the biggest night in British food and drink. On Thursday 18 October, Raymond Blanc, Tom Kitchin, Florence Knight,...
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Claude Bosi: my traditional British Christmas
Claude Bosi has two Michelin stars and comes from the food capital of France. So what's he cooking for Christmas? Turkey, trifle and all the trimmings"Ilove it," Claude Bosi tells me. "It's just...
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Nigel Slater: welcome to OFM's Christmas issue
Nigel Slater guides you through this year's Christmas special of Observer Food MonthlyI can't remember a television food programme that has garnered as much affection as the Great British Bake Off....
View ArticleBest food books of 2012: OFM's top 20 - in pictures
From chopping down a tree to make pine-bark cake to rustling up 'crack pie' or potatoes that look like stones, there's more to our top 20 food and drink books of 2012 than simple recipes
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Clare Balding: 'It's unfashionable to be as shamelessly enthusiastic as I am'
Britain's favourite TV presenter admits to enjoying a ready meal or two. It is an improvement, she says, on her time as a jockey, when she starved herself slimThe last time Clare Balding came to La...
View ArticlePerfect Christmas gifts for food lovers
Chefs and foodies including René Redzepi and April Bloomfield reveal what they'd like to wake up to at Christmas. And who asked for the fishing rod?Mina Holland
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2012: how did it taste to you? | Jay Rayner
For me, this was the year of pimped dirty food, as burgers, chicken wings and hot dogs all went gourmetAs it stutters to its end, let me ask: how did 2012 taste for you? Twenty years from now what...
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Stanley Tucci: I called Meryl Streep and said 'we need to cook together'
The actor on making Julie and Julia, and his early food experiences in New YorkConcetta, my mother's mother, was an amazing cook. After she had a stroke, in her late 80s, which almost paralysed her...
View ArticleChristmas food quiz 2012: part 1
Is KFC really a festive meal in Japan? Take the first part of our seasonal teaser, devised by Graham TarrantGraham Tarrant
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Who said that? Test your knowledge in the second of our seasonal teasers devised by Graham TarrantGraham Tarrant
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Taste test: Rachel Khoo rates Christmas chocolates
The Little Paris Kitchen star on the best festive truffles, caramels and selection boxesChocolate barsOriginal BeansEsmeraldas Milk 42% with Fleur de Sel70g, £4.95, Wholefoods storesNice snap and...
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Taste test: Christmas desserts
Eric Lannard, owner of Cake Boy in London, rates Christmas cake, mince pies, stollen, panettone and triflesChristmas cakeGail'sGail's Christmas CakeSmall £19, large £35, gailsbread.co.uk This is not...
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The cookbook that reads like a Tintin adventure | Rachel Cooke
Lesley Blanch's Round the World in Eighty Dishes collects recipes from Balkan bandits and Haitian voodoo haunts. Her extraordinary life is a lesson for today's tame cooksI'm not one of those people who...
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Sea bream in fish-fragrant sauce recipe | Fuchsia Dunlop
A Sichuanese recipe for Chinese new yearAs the new year approaches, people from all over China make their way back to their family homes for the most important festival of the lunar calendar. Most will...
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Scottish venison recipe | Tom Kitchin
A Hogmanay special of venison with celeriac, turnip and beetroot gratin and a rosehip and crab apple jelly from the Scottish chefHogmanay is very important in Scotland. Why? Well, any excuse for a...
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Cod with mustard sauce recipe | Trine Hahnemann
A traditional Danish dish for New Year's EveWe have strong traditions when it comes to celebrations and food. On New Year's Eve we eat boiled cod with mustard sauce and a list of condiments that varies...
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