Brexit and the coming food crisis: ‘If you can’t feed a country, you haven’t...
Britain’s food production depends on seasonal migrant labour from the EU. What will happen to those workers after Brexit? And how will it change the industry?On 24 June last year, the few hundred...
View ArticleEd Balls: my boozy lunches with Eddie George – and the famous Granita dinner
The ex-Labour politician recalls the Strictly tour, the ‘lasagne plot’ and what Nikolas Sarkozy thought of American foodWhen I was five, Dad did a job-swap and taught biology at Eton, so for a term I...
View ArticleOFM’s classic cookbooks: Jane Grigson’s Good Things
Lindsey Bareham recalls one of Jane Grigson’s finest works, a 1971 collection of early columns for the Observer colour magazine. Plus six of our favourite recipes from the bookWhen Good Things was...
View Article‘The kitchen has no religion’: the Lebanese activist offering hope through food
With a farmers’ market, and a string of restaurants and B&Bs, Kamal Mouzawak is helping Lebanese women and Syrian refugees to transform their livesKamal Mouzawak grew up in Jeita, a small town in...
View ArticleMassimo Bottura and his global movement to feed the hungry
The Italian is one of the finest chefs in the world. But his greatest achievement is Food for Soul, his project to feed the poor and cut food waste, now about to open in LondonMassimo Bottura is...
View ArticleSir Peter Blake: ‘All a country has is its culture; the rest is infrastructure’
On the eve of Sgt Pepper’s half-century, the pop artist shares stories of his classic album sleeve, snubbing Warhol and why he hasn’t paid a bill in Mr Chow for 50 yearsI meet Sir Peter Blake in Mr...
View ArticleTaste test: champagne and sparkling wines
Vintage, rosé, prosecco, cava and English – Bubbledogs’ sommelier and co-founder Sandia Chang tastes and rates high-street fizzesContinue reading...
View ArticleWelcome to May’s Observer Food Monthly
This month, we head to Italy to learn about Massimo Bottura’s Food for Soul project, and to Lebanon to witness how a restaurant is bridging sectarian divides, while classic recipes are supplied by Jane...
View ArticleUber for wine: and all without grapes
Ava Winery wants to re-create drinks in the lab, including some chemically identical to expensive old wines. Will it work?The most fascinating wine project I’ve come across this year has no need for...
View ArticleNigel Slater’s early summer recipes
Whether it’s tiny strawberries, broad beans or young rhubarb, when it comes to the new season’s ingredients, the less you do the betterWe ate fresh goat’s cheese mousse soft, with nothing but a trickle...
View ArticleAm I ready for my cookbook cull?
There’s a weight of memory and knowledge in my cookbooks. And now I have to get rid of some …In the kitchen, a small crisis. Something Must Be Done about the cookery books, which are threatening to...
View ArticlePeople in poverty don’t just need feeding. They should have the dignity of a...
Those who use street kitchens and food banks deserve more than our sympathyRecently my attention was drawn to a homeless man in Manchester who describes himself as the Jay Rayner of the streets. He was...
View ArticleMeet the chef who’s debunking detox, diets and wellness
Anthony Warner – alias blogger turned author the Angry Chef – is on a mission to confront the ‘alternative facts’ surrounding nutritional fads and mythsA few minutes into my encounter with the Angry...
View Article50 best summer wines for 2017
Drinks for a barbecue, a posh dinner – or just something to uncork on a lazy sunny afternoon? Here are the perfect choices for every budgetChâteau Louvignes Gaillac, France 2016 (£6.49, Lidl)From the...
View ArticleClassic Spanish recipes from Nieves Barragán Mohacho
The former Barrafina chef shares recipes from her new cookbook, Sabor including Galician octopus and a Riojan chorizo and potato stew Eighteen years ago, a young woman called Nieves Barragán Mohacho...
View ArticleLaura Mvula: ‘I can’t make music when I’ve got a dirty kitchen’
The singer-songwriter on Mum’s Caribbean cooking, food platters with Prince – and the worst time to have a burgerI grew up in a little terraced house in Selly Park, Birmingham. The rickety old piano...
View ArticleSocial media and the great recipe explosion: does more mean better?
Recipes were passed through generations, now they’re shared around the world via Instagram and Pinterest in seconds – and you don’t even have to leave home for the ingredientsIn the 1980s, the Egyptian...
View ArticleHow baking helped save my life
The science and magic of baking led Elisabeth Mahoney away from grief and into a new life and successful businessThere was always bread,” says Elisabeth Mahoney. “When I was young, my mum was a night...
View ArticleFrozen in Time: Blondie’s Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, New York, March 1981
The most glamorous couple in pop, photographed in their New York kitchen by Allen TannenbaumComedy oven gloves are often overlooked when one considers the 1970s punk scene of New York, getting lost...
View ArticleWelcome to the June edition of Observer Food Monthly
Our summer special features great Spanish recipes and the 50 best summer winesWelcome to our Summer Food Special. We have recipes galore for you, some dazzling summer wines and a little taste of Spain....
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