Adventures with aquafaba: Chantelle Nicholson’s vegan recipes
Tredwells’ chef-patron is neither vegan nor vegetarian. So here’s why she’s written a cookbook of only plant-based recipesIt seems impeccably well-timed, but Chantelle Nicholson insists she didn’t...
View ArticleThe 20 best vegan wines
With more choices available in supermarkets and online than ever before, the Observer’s wine writer selects the pick of the bunchIn one sense, defining a vegan or vegetarian wine is easy. They’re wines...
View ArticleRaw power: Britain’s changing appetite for veg
From top restaurants to Greggs snacks, vegetables are on the rise. So why are we eating less of them we did 60 years ago?You can tell the story of modern British food through our changing attitude to...
View ArticleThe builders, the MP, and the chef: meet the new vegans
From health and taste to ethics and politics, there are many reasons people eat a plant-only diet. Here, seven of them explain their choicePainter and decorator, Custom builders, and author of The...
View ArticleJack Monroe: 'Twitter became like any addiction – this is terrible! I want...
As she turns 30, the activist and writer discusses social media, vegan pub food and her on-off love for LabourI imagine any time you meet Jack Monroe it always feels a bit like you have interrupted her...
View ArticleFrozen in time: Paul and Linda McCartney and family, 4 April 1976
At home with the the UK’s most influential vegetarians – when even their geese travelled by taxiIn April 1976, Paul and Linda McCartney were on a month’s break from the Wings Over the World tour, which...
View ArticleWelcome to April’s Observer Food Monthly
It’s a vegetarian and vegan special with brilliant recipes, the best vegan wines and a special report on Britain’s appetite for vegMy first thought is always, “But will it be delicious?” That, more...
View ArticleNigel Slater’s vegetarian spring recipes
Spring green lasagne, a crunchy asparagus salad and a comforting root vegetable stewThis time of year can feel like winter, spring or even early summer. One minute you’re happy with a fistful of...
View ArticleIn postwar countries, food culture is a sign of a society healing itself
When you can go out for tapas in Bosnia or to a French bistro in Belfast, life is as it should beRecently, I fell into an email correspondence with a Bosnian writer and standup comedian called Mirko...
View ArticleIf you think pineapple on pizza is a crime, try ‘salumi marmalade’
We might be a nation divided over the pros and cons of a Hawaiian pizza, but other toppings are also beyond the paleWhen I began thinking about this column, I hoped to take a deep, scholarly dive into...
View ArticleJudy Murray: ‘I've got a photo of Andy in his high chair with a bowl of...
The tennis coach on why her sons’ first matches were over the kitchen table, and the dangers of eating cake at WimbledonI’ve got a great photo of Andysitting in his high chair at my kitchen table, with...
View ArticleOFM’s classic cookbook: Sri Owen’s The Rice Book
Food writer Bee Wilson celebrates the cookbook that’s regarded as the definitive work about the world’s most universal foodBefore I had kids, in the late 1990s, I was a far more ambitious cook than I...
View ArticleFood therapy vs chemotherapy: the cookery classes for people living with cancer
After his mother died of cancer, Ryan Riley wanted to help others living with the disease rediscover the appetites, so, with Sue Perkins on board, he set up Life KitchenFor Ryan Riley there was a sense...
View ArticleTaste test: from whisky to dark rum, which high-street spirits are the best?
Vodka, gin, whisky and rum tasted and rated by Bar Termini’s Tony ConigliaroFortnum & Mason English Barley Vodka50cl, £28.50, fortnumandmason.comSlightly buttery. Tastes like [Japanese spirit]...
View ArticleWelcome to May’s Observer Food Monthly
This month, we bring you cookery classes for those living with cancer, Sri Owen’s perfect rice recipes, a profile of chef Sat Bains, and we have lunch with Robert WebbMy eldest brother and I are having...
View ArticleSat Bains: 'We are a working-class two Michelin-star restaurant'
Under a flyover off the A52 you’ll find Michelin-star chef Sat Bains. Here he talks about his Punjabi heritage and why Brexit might be the ‘nail in the coffin’ of British food cultureAs with all the...
View ArticleRobert Webb: ‘Jokes are important for men – we think we invented them’
The actor and author on his mother’s death, meeting David Mitchell and why being funny is the best way to slide under men’s emotional radarI meet Robert Webb at Ham – a restaurant named not for any...
View ArticleFrozen in time: Joan Didion in her California kitchen, October 1972
In her kitchen at home in Malibu, the writer liked an ice-cold Coke for breakfast – and making salads to feed 40 guestsThis kitchen is in the Malibu house where Didion lived for eight years with her...
View ArticleMeet the reluctant guru of goat's cheese
Mary Holbrook went from a PhD in archeology to becoming the Somerset small farmer who transformed British cheeseThere is a bit of a list of things that get Mary Holbrook’s goat: the government, Brexit,...
View ArticleIs Bordeaux’s reign as the king of wines over? | David Williams
With Bordeaux an ‘investment vehicle for the 1%’, it’s time to seek out future classics from Argentina, New Zealand and South AfricaNews from Bordeaux used to dominate this time of year. It’s the...
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