What's the point of posh salt?
Sea salt, salt flakes, salt from Cyprus, salt from the Himalayas – can anyone really taste the difference?Four months ago, officials from Food Standards Scotland arrived at the Lewis home of Natalie...
View ArticleNigel Slater’s light summer recipes
Yogurt adds a cool note to summer eating, as a herby highlight to chicken, or a lighter raspberry fool to end the day. Plus, how to make your own labnehIf there is a theme running through this summer’s...
View ArticleWho wants to share their plate? Definitely not me
You can hardly escape sharing plates when you eat out – but who gets the last bite? Time to embrace your inner glutton …And so, it’s farewell once more to the asparagus season. Personally, I’m...
View ArticleTaste test: picnic food and drink
Scotch eggs and quiches, strawberry trifles and lashings of ginger beer – summer picnic essentials rated by Eleonora GalassoEleonora Galasso is a food writer and author of As The Romans Do. Here, she...
View ArticleTom Kerridge: ‘My barbecue isn’t about finesse: it’s all about flavour’
Tom Kerridge fires up the grill with six exclusive recipes, including Lebanese-spiced lamb chops, grilled cucumber with satay and aromatic lemon sole. Plus, Richard Turner on how smoke worksWhen he was...
View ArticleDan Aykroyd: ‘Squirrels? They taste better than rattlesnake’
The Ghostbusters actor, writer and comedian on his perfect clambakes, eating with John Belushi – and alien appetitesI was at [New York restaurant] Elaine’s with Paul Simon, Lorne Michaels and Chevy...
View ArticleOFM’s classic cookbooks: Yan-Kit’s Classic Chinese Cookbook
Yan-kit So’s Classic Chinese Cookbook is a perfect gateway to the country’s cooking. Here, food writer Fuchsia Dunlop recalls her friendship with its author. Plus five brilliant recipesThe first...
View ArticleHow to crowdfund a restaurant empire
When award-winning chef Gary Usher was turned down by the bank for a loan to open a second restaurant, he set up a crowdfunding campaign. Now he’s about to launch his fourth restaurantAll restaurants...
View ArticleColm Toíbín: Brexit expats, Trump's Irish influence – and the right way to...
If you’re having lunch with the Booker-shortlisted novelist, expect a wide-ranging discussionIf you were to go in search of a prime example of the genus “writer”, Colm Toíbín would have strong claims...
View ArticleI would eat anything for lunch (but I won’t eat that) – how can I cure my...
Killian Fox has eaten termites, he’s tried crickets, but there’s one food he is afraid of. Can psychology and a brilliant young chef help?Why do fears exist, if not for us to confront them? This is...
View ArticleWine, protest and Macron: why southern French wine producers are so angry
The ‘vinuous terrorists’ of Languedoc-Roussillon are battling changing French drinking habits and a new president as they seek to preserve the region’s traditionsThere is no love for politicians among...
View ArticleWelcome to July’s OFM
As high summer arrives, we get the barbecue out to try Tom Kerridge’s exclusive grill recipes, sit down to tapas with Colm Toíbín, and taste test picnic classics with Eleonora GalassoWe had taken the...
View ArticleEdible flowers in supermarkets is a trend I'd like to see wilt
Thanks to Bake Off and the Instagram generation, bags of marigolds and nasturtiums are clogging up the chiller cabinet. Can’t we just leave these floral garnishes in the garden?One recent Saturday...
View ArticleNigel Slater’s summer recipes with bread
Soft buns and carrot burgers, brioche for a summer pudding or toasted breadcrumbs with brown shrimp: Nigel Slater offers five ways with breadWe tend to eat less bread in summer, and there are only so...
View ArticleWhere's the best place to find out who your real friends are? The kitchen
Time for my annual holiday dilemma: who can I bear to allow to cook alongside me?It is August, the month of my great social experiment, or the summer holidays as other people call them. Here’s how it...
View ArticleThe only 4 spaghetti recipes you'll ever need
In an exclusive extract from his new cookbook Made at Home, Giorgio Locatelli suggests four classic store-cupboard pasta dishes that will never failInterview with Giorgio, plus more recipes from Made...
View ArticleGiorgio Locatelli: new cookbook, new TV show, new lease of life
With his first cookbook in six years and The Big Family Cooking Showdown on BBC2, Britain’s favourite Italian chef is finally getting over the explosion that shut Locanda Locatelli for monthsThe only...
View ArticleWhy is ketchup so delicious? Science answers the big food questions
What’s good, what’s bad and why – five food questions answered by consultant cardiologist Ali Khavandi and science writer Dara MohammadiWhether you’re a dolloper or a Jackson Pollocker, a plate of...
View ArticleKaren Elson: ‘At 16, I was living in Paris on Weetabix and pears’
The musician and model on fussy eating, late-night sake – and why her Nashville friends call her ‘Mama K’As a girl I hardly ate anything except dried bread, bacon, Jammie Dodgers and microwave chips. I...
View ArticleHow to cook like a pro. Step one: listen to the sound your food makes
Samin Nosrat could barely dice vegetables when she began working in Alice Waters’s Chez Panisse in California. Here, she reveals how learning to tune in to all of her senses changed everythingI was...
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