Christmas gift ideas for food lovers 2018
Observer Food Monthly’s choice of gift ideas, from stocking fillers and budget presents to no-expense-spared treatsContinue reading...
View ArticleCooking for one in the age of Trump
The kitchen in my flat in New York was squalid. And so was the daily news of Trump. But I have learned to adapt to bothTwo autumns ago, on the wide avenue where I live in New York City, I abandoned a...
View ArticleWelcome to November’s Observer Food Monthly
Step into Christmas with our gift guide, recipes and 50 best wines for the seasonI am rarely happier than when stirring the pudding or stuffing the goose, tucking pigs up in their blankets or spreading...
View ArticleNigel Slater’s perfect Christmas recipes
Trout tartare, turkey, pumpkin, quince pies, dishes that balance old flavours and fresh ideas for the year’s most anticipated feastSome of the rituals of Christmas are, for me, unshakable. The tree...
View ArticleHow do you beat the Christmas blues? Take charge in the kitchen
The best thing about doing the festive cooking? You can appear selfless while avoiding the family argumentsLike your first hangover and your first speeding ticket, cooking Christmas lunch for the first...
View ArticleBryn Terfel: ‘All conductors like Italian food. It’s ingrained’
The opera singer on Plácido Domingo’s cookbooks and what to eat to survive WagnerWhat had a huge bearing on me – a sheep farmer’s son from Gwynedd – believing that I could sing Wagner on the stages of...
View ArticleLen & Alex Deighton’s Italian Cookstrips: Mostaccioli
Len and Alex: A distinctive taste or faint aroma can bring back an old memory. The striking taste of pisto spices reminds us of a family Christmas spent in Naples years ago. Len Deighton is the author...
View ArticleRecipes for a Basque New Year’s Eve feast
Prawn croquetas, nougat cuajada and a showstopping fish stew – Sabor’s Michelin-starred chef Nieves Barragán Mohacho shows us how to celebrate the end of 2018 Spanish-styleFor Nieves Barragán Mohacho,...
View ArticleThe best thing I ate in 2018
Tacos in Philadelphia, doughnuts in Cleethorpes, grilled lamb in Istanbul – cooks and writers including Prue Leith, Nathan Outlaw and Clare Smyth pick their culinary highlightsFay Maschler, restaurant...
View ArticleNadiya Hussain: ‘This is more than a job – it's important to be out there’
The Bake Off winner turned national treasure tells Observer Food Monthly about combining family life, anxiety and the pressures of being a role modelEvery Saturday night, Nadiya Hussain sits between...
View ArticleMalbec, mencia, chardonnay: the wine trends of 2018
Sales down, prices up – but the year still had its bright momentsA lot of the news about wine in the UK this year was about what we’re not drinking. Sales are on the slide, inching downwards by around...
View ArticleThe 20 best food books of 2018
From modern Italian to a tour of the Islamic world, easy Ottolenghi to classic Nigella: Observer Food Monthly’s reads of the yearSelected recipes from our best food books1 The Modern Italian CookJoe...
View ArticleFour recipes from the best food writers of 2018
Dishes from OFM’s favourite food books of the year, including roast pork with fennel seed from Gill Meller’s Time and duck legs with clementines from Honey & Co At HomeOFM’s 20 best food books of...
View ArticleJudith Kerr: ‘I like this generation of teenagers. They seem kind and...
At 95, the author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea still works every day. ‘Stories are a huge comfort,’ she says over lunch at the SavoyJudith Kerr has a theory about life. The first half of it, she...
View ArticleWelcome to December’s Observer Food Monthly
The food world’s favourite dishes of 2018, a New Year feast from Nieves Barragán Mohacho, and our woman of the year Nadiya HussainYou might well wonder what a dish of shrimp and fermented strawberries...
View ArticleThe best whiskies for New Year’s Eve 2018
With a boom in independent distilleries, scotch is enjoying a renaissanceWhisky drinkers could be forgiven for thinking they can do without scotch these days. The razzle-dazzle surrounding exotic,...
View ArticleVegan jerky? No thanks, I’ll stick with the Frazzles
Kelp noodles, tahini ice-cream … who dreams up these lists of food trends and what we’ll be eating in 2019?This time of year brings with it plenty of quite stupid traditions, and few of them more daft...
View ArticleNigel Slater’s recipes for the in-between days of Christmas
There’s more to the festivities than feasting. Simple meals, like smoked haddock with lentils, parsnip poutine and ice-cream with nougat, can be just as specialThe tree is up. The holly is hanging from...
View ArticleStop stressing about the perfect diet, it's human to fail
Diet regimes are full of crass slogans, but one thing holds true: go easy on yourself Recently, I received an email from a young woman who told me that, although she was struggling with an eating...
View ArticleMy idea of luxury? Proper mushy peas
Luxury food doesn’t have to be expensive, and expensive food isn’t always the definition of luxuryThe other day, I got to thinking about the matter of luxury in food, and for a few moments all I could...
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