Nigel Slater’s summer fruit recipes
Gooseberry cheesecake, ricotta cream and cherry compote, peach and honey cake – Nigel Slater’s sun-filled fruit and dairy puddingsThere comes a point in deepest summer when every meal seems to end with...
View ArticleI'm tired of restaurants making us eat against the clock | Jay Rayner
Three courses, coffee and a good chat with friends squeezed into 90 minutes? That’s not my idea of a relaxing night outHow long does it take you to eat your dinner? By which I mean a proper dinner:...
View ArticleTony Adams: ‘I put down alcohol. But I couldn’t put down fish and chips’
The ex-Arsenal captain on football’s drinking culture, the joy of Hobnobs – and why food is his last weaknessI regret my own parents not teaching me to cook. Thank god for my wife, a fantastic cook....
View ArticleCheese and Brexit: now they’re both giving me nightmares | Rachel Cooke
I have deep feelings about cheese. It used to help when I fretted about Brexit. Not any moreOn holiday in Corsica, I ate a lot of cheese: le niolo, which is made from goat’s milk and so addictively...
View ArticleTaste Test: from vegetable crisps to guacamole, which are the best chips and...
Cookery writer Sabrina Ghayour tastes and rates supermarket snacksContinue reading...
View ArticleHow Brat's Tomos Parry became Britain's hottest chef
The man behind the year’s most acclaimed restaurant talks fire, fish and vegetables ploughed by horses. Plus, six exclusive recipesTomos Parry often seems a tiny bit bemused. Bemused, for example, by...
View ArticleThe rise and fall of the TV chef | Tim Hayward
There may never be another Jamie Oliver or Gordon Ramsay. Why would today’s young chefs be interested in working in food television?For almost as long as there has been TV, there have been cooks on it...
View ArticleGrand Dishes: the kitchen stories of our grandmothers
Meet the stars of an award-winning project celebrating the lives and recipes of the true heroes of family cooking“She cooks like no one else I know,” says Anastasia Miari of her grandmother, whose name...
View ArticleWild at heart: six recipes from River Cottage’s Gill Meller
Roast artichokes and fennel mayo, crayfish salad with radishes, plum and almond tart – delicious dishes from Gill Meller’s new cookbook TimeMaking time to cook has become one of the most important...
View ArticleFrozen in time: Audrey Hepburn shopping with a fawn, 1958
Beverly Hills thought it had seen it all – until Audrey Hepburn went to supermarkets and parties with Pippin the deerIn 1958, Audrey Hepburn was shooting Green Mansions, playing a woman in the...
View ArticleThe poachers and the treasures of the deep: diving for abalone in South Africa
The seafood delicacy can sell for £420 a plate in China. As demand outstrips legal supply, divers from the poor suburbs of Cape Town are making up the shortfallA muscular, bald man moved through the...
View ArticleIt’s time to explore ‘suburban wine’
As land in France’s grand cru regions and the Napa Valley becomes eye-wateringly expensive, innovative winemakers are transforming previously unfashionable areasAt a British dinner party there might be...
View ArticleJeremy Deller: ‘Cafes and pubs are endangered species. They should be listed’
In his favourite London cafe, Jeremy Deller discusses political art, gentrification – and his mum’s steak and kidney pieJeremy Deller arrives for lunch in long shorts and a T-shirt of swirling colours...
View ArticleWelcome to August’s Observer Food Monthly
A celebration of grandmothers and their recipes, delicious dishes from River Cottage’s Gill Meller, plus Brat chef Tomos ParryI never really witnessed my grandmother cooking, only the aftermath, when...
View ArticleThe cliche is French food is better than ours. The trouble is, it's true
What’s so wrong with buttery croissants, stinky cheese, and just-picked tomatoes?I am, by nature, suspicious of food cliches. I don’t think Grandma’s cooking was always better. Certainly, my...
View ArticleFood and Brexit: will our cupboards be bare?
From farmers and poultry producers to professors of food policy, those on the frontline have been sounding the alarm. So how will the UK cope after 29 March 2019?It is a warm day and the European...
View ArticleBarack Obama’s not keen on pudding. This means we can never be friends
The best way to tell if you’re compatible with someone? See how much butter they spread on their bread and how often they order dessertSome people think the worst words in the language are “rail...
View ArticleRick Astley: ‘There’s a beer inspired by me, Astley’s Northern Hop’
From brewing tea for Kylie to brewing hipster beer in Copenhagen, the singer tells us about his unexpected life in food and drink My parents had another son before me, called David, who passed away,...
View ArticleOFM’s classic cookbook: Nigella Lawson’s How to Eat
Where it all began: Nigel Slater celebrates the 20th anniversary of Nigella Lawson’s first cookbook. Plus six brilliant recipesHow to Eat is easy to find on my bookshelf. It is the book in tatters. The...
View ArticleCucina paradiso: Joe Trivelli’s modern Italian home cooking
The River Cafe chef on his mentors in the kitchen and what he cooks for his family. Plus six recipes from his new book, The Modern Italian CookThe idea of a celebrated restaurant chef compiling a...
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