Noel Fielding: What I craved after those Mighty Boosh shows was milk
The comedian runs through his repertoire of food-friendly characters over carrot sticks and dips in a 2011 interviewIn 2011, bringing cucumber mini-sandwiches and softened carrot sticks and dips, I...
View ArticleWelcome to the May edition of Observer Food Monthly
We ask chefs what keeps them in the kitchen, plus recipes from star baker Justin Gellatly and a look at the rise of halal foodI would never make it as a professional chef. Despite a love of hands-on...
View ArticleSeven ages of a chef: Georgina Dent
'Don't be lazy. Be prepared to give up your life for food,' says the demi chef at Murano, 20, who was OFM's young chef of the year 2013My parents both chefs split up when I was young and I grew up with...
View ArticleClaudia Roden: 'My kids preferred beans on toast to hummus and pitta'
The revered food writer invites us into the 1970s room where she creates and tests recipes for friends and familyIn 2007, a US magazine sent a photographer to shoot a portrait of Claudia Roden at her...
View ArticleWelcome to the April edition of Observer Food Monthly
Cast your nominations for the 2014 OFM Awards, plus new cookbooks and a list of 50 things we loveOne of the brilliant things about being involved with Observer Food Monthly is having the opportunity to...
View ArticleEasy, delicious baking recipes from French pastry chef Fanny Zanotti
Lemon and blueberry madeleines, cherry clafoutis, chocolate fondant cake, ricotta and honey doughnuts, and moreI don't know for sure when it all started. Perhaps on that early morning of an endless...
View ArticleWelcome to the April edition of Observer Food Monthly
Cast your nominations for the 2014 OFM Awards, plus new cookbooks and a list of 50 things we loveOne of the brilliant things about being involved with Observer Food Monthly is having the opportunity to...
View ArticleClean eating: yet another pious regime to squeeze the joy out of good...
Gwyneth Paltrow 'eats clean', which tells you all you need to know about the latest selfdeluded food fadYou will be relieved to know that today, before writing this, I showered. Soap was involved. I am...
View ArticleSummer vegetarian recipes
From proper burger and pizza to a double chocolate cake, Anna Jones's modern meat-free recipes emphasise the delicious over self-denialAnna Jones discusses her vegetarian recipesThis is a really good...
View ArticleLisa Snowdon: I ate a jacket potato with beans and grated cheese every day...
The TV and radio presenter on Big Macs in Tokyo and 4am smoothiesThe smell I associate with growing up in Welwyn Garden City is Nabisco's cereal factory. For years it made Shredded Wheat on an...
View Article20 best summer wines
What to drink with a barbecue, an alfresco dessert, or just a little something to make the summer days swing: the finest reds, whites, roses and fizz for the seasonPasico Old Vine Monastrell Shiraz,...
View ArticlePJ O'Rourke: 'Menus have become another intelligence test at which I fail'
The conservative humorist and writer is 66 but adamant that he hasn't mellowed although his wife, kids and chickens might not agree The Baby Boom by PJ O'Rourke review PJ O'Rourke the rightwinger it's...
View ArticleAnna Jones and the modern way to cook vegetarian food
The author of A Modern Way to eat on why meat-free meals should emphasise the delicious rather than self-denialTry the recipes hereThere is something persuasive about Anna Jones's approach to...
View ArticleWelcome to the June edition of Observer Food Monthly
Our summer special brings you recipes for a perfect picnic, Anna Jones's vegetarian treats and, of course, delicious ice-creamWelcome to our summer recipe special, with a cornucopia of timeless...
View ArticleSix great summer picnic recipes
Crunchy salads and tender chicken recipes from the founder of the Little Bread Pedlar bakeryAs a child, summer picnics meant trips out in my grandad's Skoda 130, cool-box packed with sandwiches, to...
View ArticleThe perfect holiday needs a perfect cafe | Rachel Cooke
It's not the beach, the walking or the weather: finding a good place to eat can turn a good holiday into a great oneFor a long time, a friend of mine has based her summer holiday almost entirely around...
View ArticleBlackcurrant ice-cream recipe
A foolproof recipe for a summer dessert from La Grotta Ices' Kitty TraversOne of my earliest memories is of blackcurrant picking on the farm of a family friend in Tiverton, Devon, aged about three....
View ArticleNigel Slater's 5 early summer dessert recipes
Nigel Slater makes the most of the new season's strawberries, mangoes and rhubarbFive easy desserts for summer that make the most of the season's perfect marriages from strawberries and cream and mango...
View ArticleSimon Hopkinson: eight new recipes for summer
The food writer and chef celebrates his favourite season with eight recipes inspired by memories of childhood summersIt would begin with being sent into the garden to collect apple mint to cook with...
View ArticleRosemary Conley: I was a compulsive eater before I was born again
The fitness guru discussed dieting, food and the Lord in this 1995 interviewWhen Rosemary Conley Food and Fitness went into administration recently, I recalled how, when I interviewed the guru of...
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