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My favourite recipes | Nigella Lawson
As new editions of her cookbooks are published, Nigella chooses her own favourite dishes from themMustard pork chopsI love the old French favourites, the sorts that evoke not the supercilious waiter...
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Why I became a cookbook writer | Nigella Lawson
As new editions of her acclaimed cookery books are published, Nigella Lawson looks back at how it all began• Now read Nigella's favourite recipes from her booksI never intended to be a food writer. But...
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Joanne Harris: 'I'm not as sweet-toothed as people think'
It's no wonder food is at the heart of the Chocolat author's work – after all, she was born in a Barnsley sweetshopIt is hard to believe Joanne Harris has chosen a restaurant with no chocolate on the...
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Where to buy wine online | David Williams
A guide to the best sites and best offers for wine loversWe now take it for granted. Perhaps, after WikiLeaks and Edward Snowden, we're even a little scared of it. But just occasionally it's still...
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Simon Rogan: 'The eyes of the world will be on me at Claridge's'
The chef at Cumbria's award-winning L'Enclume reveals how his food philosophy will pay off at his high-profile opening in LondonAt 7.30pm on the night of the greatest storm of the winter, I sit down to...
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Nigel Slater: five ways to use your loaf
One beautiful dough. Five perfect recipes, from olive and thyme focaccia to pizza and maple syrup walnut bunsA bag of flour, a packet or two of dried yeast, salt and some warm water and you could make...
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The Bloomsbury cooks | Rachel Cooke
A new insight into the lives of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury set shows they were almost as obsessed with eating as with artPerhaps it's a function of my awful tendency to reduce all of life to the...
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Seven traditional Vietnamese family recipes
Uyen Luu, author of My Vietnamese Kitchen, gives her recipes for fried tilapia, sizzling crepes with pork and prawns and omelette baguettesSaigon fresh summer rollsThis recipe is from Saigon but every...
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Malcolm McLaren: why I gave up wine tasting for art
The impresario recalled in this 1984 interview the day he gave up his 'one and only job' as a trainee wine tasterWhen I offered to fetch or make a cup of coffee for a busy Malcolm McLaren – he had a...
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Uyen Luu: 'Vietnamese food is about emotional wellbeing'
The author of My Vietnamese Kitchen on her extraordinary journey from refugee to cookbook author• Try Uyen Luu's recipes hereWhen Uyen Luu – cook, blogger and supper club founder – invites you for...
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Henry Dimbleby: 'When you're making dinner it gets a bit steamy'
Leon's co-founder likes Turkish grills so much that he bought an enormous one for his homeWalking into Henry Dimbleby's kitchen in Hackney, there are mounds of wooden vegetables, along with tea sets...
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Welcome to the March edition of Observer Food Monthly | Nigel Slater
Nigella's favourite recipes and one family's attempt to live for four weeks on a low-sugar diet are highlights of this month's OFMImagine you can only keep one cookbook. The rest of the bookshelf, or...
View ArticleBurnt toast? Spare ribs? Why the dirtiest food is the most delicious | Jay...
Fine dining is all very well, but sometimes there's nothing like burnt toast or those lurid chicken-shop spare ribsBeing a pervert carries with it risks, the most acute of which is exposure. Deviating...
View ArticleHow to eat more greens: just add mayonnaise | Rachel Cooke
Seven-a-day has replaced five-a-day. If you can't face a mountain of fruit and veg, here's the answer. It's delicious, if not quite so healthy Doubtless you've heard the news. According to researchers...
View ArticleThe OFM 50: our favourite foods, recipes, restaurants and more
From Portland to Paris, secret ingredients to world-beating chefs, presenting our second annual guide to the best cooking eating and drinkingBlood has gone out of fashion as a cooking ingredient...
View ArticleBrilliant recipes from Persiana, Sabrina Ghayour's debut cookbook
Seafood and saffron stew, lamb and sour cherry meatballs, tomato salad with pomegranate molasses, and moreThe first time I had this salad (known as gavurdagi salatasi) in Istanbul, I was staggered by...
View ArticleSabrina Ghayour: the golden girl of Persian cookery
Sabrina Ghayour's debut cookbook Persiana is an instant classic. She talks about Persian cookery and becoming the family cook at 11 years old Brilliant recipes from Persiana, Sabrina Ghayour's debut...
View ArticleJackie Collins: 'My mafia godfather made the best pasta sauce'
The novelist recalls childhood squabbles with her sister Joan, hanging out in Soho jazz clubs and running away to LA. She also has a cocktail named after herMy earliest food memory, in London during...
View ArticleOrange wine: tastier it sounds | David Williams
A guide to the best of the winemaking style that offers new flavours, as well as coloursOrange wines? If you've not come across them before, you could be forgiven for thinking I've made them up. It...
View ArticleBrian Sewell: Tracey Emin's art is 'trivial' and Grayson Perry's is 'vulgar'
The critic is known for his acid tongue and hatred of modern art Banksy should've been 'put down at birth' but he loves to talk about Bacon (the painter, not the breakfast)Will I be having lunch with...
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