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50 top foodie picks from Observer Food Monthly
From haute cuisine camel in Doha to a proper pint in a beautiful Chester pub, here are a few of our favourite things• See our OFM 50 interactive1: Sushi TetsuWith a three-month waiting list, this...
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Tea and flies with Kermit the Frog
Time's fun when you're having flies, says the green Muppet star"I never forget my low position in the food chain," said Kermit, when I had a private audience with him in 1996. "I'm basically an...
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Gwyneth Paltrow: 'Leonardo DiCaprio would tell me how dirty meat is. Now I...
The film star on food, family and a passion for grilled cheese sandwichesMy father was working class and going out to eat was a big deal to him, always. He relished every bite and wanted me to weigh in...
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Nigel Slater's spring soup recipes
Celebrate the gentle green flavours of spring with a roast chicken pho, a ham hock with pea and herb soup, and a miso broth with prawnsA bowl of soup can invigorate or comfort as the mood takes us. It...
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Life is sweet: the prisoners who make some of the world's finest chocolates
In Italy's Busto Arsizio jail, inmates serving time for serious offences are finding rehabilitation through trufflesSantos Bernard's family has a little farm in Cibao, a fertile region in the north of...
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'Our recipes are from the land as much as from the chef'
The team from the award-winning Ethicurean restaurant explain the food philosophy behind their new cookbookIn 2010, four friends discovered a Victorian walled garden in the Mendip Hills, 10 miles...
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Spring dessert recipes
Chocolate and salt caramel brownies with cherry and elderflower sauce, and rhubarb and custard, from the Ethicurean CookbookChocolate and salt caramel brownies with cherry and elderflower sauceThere...
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Spring vegetable recipes
Spring radishes with anchovy creme fraiche and asparagus with toasted sesame and hollandaise sauce, from the Ethicurean CookbookSpring radishes with anchovy creme fraicheThis simple anchovy dip pairs...
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Spring meat and fish recipes
Salt marsh lamb with tidal greens, and sweet-cure mackerel with morels, spelt soda bread and horseradish, from the Ethicurean CookbookSalt marsh lamb with tidal greensIn England, the benefits of salt...
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The Ethicurean cocktail recipe
A balance of sharp, sweet and savoury flavours to enjoy as the days get longerThe Ethicurean cocktailThis cocktail has quickly become a classic at the Ethicurean, a delightful balance of sweet, sharp...
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Rachel Cooke on food and social class
If anything is a good indicator of social status, it's food. But even that can be tricky. After all, I prefer Tunnock's Tea Cakes to quinoaThe BBC's recent class survey struck me as completely barmy....
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I've lost my appetite – and with it goes my sense of self
When you're a deckhand on the good ship nausea, all kinds of things go astrayI will spare you the graphic details. Unless you are absurdly lucky, or party to a pact with the devil – send me over the...
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Nicky Haslam "Ed Miliband is incredibly attractive"
For the interior designer and socialite good taste is everything and being boring a sin. He's also the last person you'd expect to fancy the leader of the Labour party. Elizabeth Day tries not to be...
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Wines for your cellar – and you don't have to be loaded to start one
All you need is a dark place with a consistent temperature – and a few of these winesFor most of us, the idea of keeping a cellar full of wine is an aristocratic throwback or an investment banker's...
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Nigel Slater: welcome to Observer Food Monthly's April issue
Brilliant spring recipes and the chance to vote in our annual awards – and win some fantastic prizesThis year marks the 10th anniversary of the OFM Food Awards, supported by Cuisinart, in which you get...
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Cook it Raw: 'For chefs, it's like free-falling into the unknown'
Gather together the world's best chefs, take them somewhere remote and ask them to cook only from what's around them. Eight of the world's finest chefs recall their experience of Cook it RawRené...
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Lionel Shriver: 'Almost no one has a normal relationship with food'
Lionel Shriver's new novel is intensely concerned with food, family and obesity. Over lunch, she talks about its semi-autobiographical roots, the class divide over eating – and her passion for...
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How we stopped worrying and learned to love veg
Time was when many of our vegetables were tinned or tedious. Now we eat six types of lettuce and can spot a posh tomato at 10 pacesA story appeared in the newspapers recently courtesy of the Marks...
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Nigel Slater's vegetable recipes
Chicory with grapes, honey and mustard, gratin of kale and almonds, harissa carrots… Some vegetable dishes are too good to put on the sideThe vegetable dishes I find the most useful are those which can...
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Why do men make such hard work of cooking?
Women, who still do the lion's share of the work at home, want kitchen shortcuts – but men who write cookbooks love onerous tasksIt was Michael Pollan who gave us the unbeatable 21st-century maxim:...
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