Sweetness and blight: the mounting case against sugar
My mantra was: all things in moderation. But as the evidence against sugar stacks up, I’m growing anxious. Although I won’t give up fruit…One day earlier this month, I opened TheOxford Companion to...
View ArticleOFM’s classic cookbooks: The Classic Italian Cookbook by Marcella Hazan
Marcella Hazan was responsible for bringing authentic Italian cooking to the British and American public. Here, St John’s Fergus Henderson introduces favourite recipes from her 1973 Classic Italian...
View ArticleWelcome to December’s Observer Food Monthly
Italian Christmas recipes, our brilliant seasonal taste test and my own recipes for parsnips and potatoesThe world feels like a different place from the one in which, this time last year, I sat down to...
View ArticleThe best thing I ate in 2016
From a homemade birthday cake to wild pig in the Yucatán, the big names in food, including Nigella Lawson, René Redzepi and Nadiya Hussain, recall their favourite eating experiences of 2016Fat chips...
View ArticleWelcome to December’s Observer Food Monthly
Italian Christmas recipes, our brilliant seasonal taste test and my own recipes for parsnips and potatoesThe world feels like a different place from the one in which, this time last year, I sat down to...
View ArticleWhich simple recipes should your children be able to cook? | Jay Rayner
By the time you pack them off to university, a good tomato sauce and a roast chicken are a must. The perfect hollandaise? Not so muchRecently, I came home to find the remnants of a hollandaise sauce...
View ArticleWelcome to our February issue and the OFM 50
This month we shout about our 50 favourite things in the food world, from Mangalitsa pigs to Honey & Co’s babka. Plus classic recipes from Claudia Roden and my own winter citrus dishesAbove all,...
View ArticleThe 5th annual OFM 50: what we love about food in 2017
From a revered French chef to Singapore’s salted eggs, Monica Galetti’s new restaurant to Japanese vending machines: 50 of Observer Food Monthly’s favourite things (in no particular order)Continue...
View ArticleMichelin men: Claude Bosi, Terence Conran and the return of Bibendum
Bibendum has been a London landmark for 30 years. Now, with its relaunch, it is up to chef Claude Bosi to bring the stars homeIn the gutted upstairs room of Bibendum on London’s Fulham Road, I’m...
View ArticleOFM’s classic cookbooks: Claudia Roden’s Book of Middle Eastern Food
Claudia Roden’s Book of Middle Eastern Food is as much an evocative set of stories as a list of great recipes. Yotam Ottolenghi introduces the cookbook that never fails to inspire himA Book of Middle...
View ArticleHow do you spot a hipster wine?
Some wines have pseudo counter-cultural stylings, but give them a chance – you might just love themNow that hipster has come to mean anything vaguely to do with young people, you can add hipster wine...
View ArticleTom Daley: ‘Maybe to beat Chinese divers you have to eat like them’
Britain’s Olympic diver on childhood broccoli dinners, training camp chicken claws and why wine is like a doughnutHaving two younger brothers, I learned to eat really quickly, because the first to...
View ArticleComing soon: turnips are the new kale
The iceberg lettuce shortage is only the beginning. Brexit will have a huge effect on the food we buy. Best to fall back on some great British vegI must be honest. I can’t say that I’m suffering too...
View ArticleNigel Slater’s winter citrus recipes
Winter citrus adds colour to the dark days of February. Refresh your plate with lemon, grapefruit and blood orangeCitrus fruit makes the heart sing, it brightens, refreshes and uplifts: a thick,...
View ArticleIf you don’t like the menu, you know what you can do …
Too noisy, or too meaty? Don’t moan at me if a restaurant doesn’t cater to your every need or whimRecently I received an email from a woman who wanted me to do something about chefs using nuts in...
View ArticleWelcome to the March issue of Observer Food Monthly
In anticipation of Easter, Lorraine Pascale taste-tests chocolate eggs, hot cross buns and simnel cake, while the Green Kitchen supplies great everyday vegetarian recipes, and five women chefs relate...
View Article‘I like it when people think this is real’: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon on...
Yes, they bicker. Yes, they do impressions. And, as well as celebrating food, this new series of improvised comedy also explores – brilliantly – masculinity and middle ageThe rain in Spain falls mainly...
View ArticleSix easy vegetarian recipes from the Green Kitchen
David Frenkiel and Luise Vindahl, the husband and wife team behind the acclaimed blog Green Kitchen, now have three children. They’re the inspiration for their new collection of fuss-free recipes...
View ArticleHow hard is it to be a chef and a mother with young children?
Five professional cooks discuss how having kids changed their lives, in the kitchen and at home Margot, 52, co-owns Rochelle Canteen and catering company Arnold & Henderson in Shoreditch, east...
View ArticleFrom Instagram to TV ads, what’s the science behind food porn?
What does the bombardment of food imagery do to our brains and bodies? The ‘gastrophysicist’ who has worked with Heston Blumenthal explains all in an extract from his new bookYour brain is your body’s...
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