Len & Alex Deighton’s Spanish Cookstrips: Tortilla de Patatas
Alex The aroma of frying onions and potatoes; this dish reminds me of my childhood.Len Your mother still makes the best tortilla de patatas I’ve ever had. Len Deighton is the author of the Action...
View ArticleChefs' secret ingredients: turn dinner from basic to brilliant
Seaweed, trotters, charcoal and even a bit of boiled potato – chefs and food writers on what they add to dinner to make it extra specialBy Jack Monroe, food writer and campaignerContinue reading...
View ArticleTaste test: wines and cocktails in cans
Cookery writer Gizzi Erskine tastes and rates high-street sparkling rosés, mojitos and gins in tinsContinue reading...
View ArticleFrozen in time: Maya Angelou cooks for Toni Morrison, September 1994
To honour the author’s Nobel prize for literature, Angelou hosts a feast for 150 in her Winston-Salem homeMaya Angelou stands in the kitchen of her birdcage-lined home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina,...
View ArticlePaint the town: an illustrated celebration of London shopfronts
From Italian delis to the city’s oldest coffee stall, Eleanor Crow’s new book documents small food businesses fighting for survivalA lot of it was based on appearance,” says Eleanor Crow on choosing...
View ArticleFood after oil: how urban farmers are preparing us for a self-sufficient future
Bristol is at the head of a food phenomenon that is helping residents better connect with their cities and each otherIf you travel by train into Bristol from north of the city, there is a point two...
View ArticleFood on the frontline: finding common ground through cooking
Giles Duley photographs people in war zones. More importantly he cooks and eats with them firstGiles Duley, a 47-year-old photographer, is no stranger to some of the world’s most desperate places. His...
View ArticleWelcome to August’s Observer Food Monthly
This month we have a photographer who cooks with his subjects, and an illustrated history of lost shopfronts. Plus chefs’ secret ingredientsI have a black and white photograph that has puzzled me for...
View ArticleNigel Slater’s recipes for easy summer eating
Tomato salad, fried prawns, courgettes with creme fraiche – dishes for days when you can’t stand the heat of the kitchenThe hotter the weather, the less time I seem to spend in the kitchen. At this...
View ArticleOlafur Eliasson: ‘I brought a frozen chicken into art school’
The Danish artist has taken over the Tate Modern restaurant as well as its gallery. He talks student food and his dad’s life as a ship’s cookWhen the Tate contacted Olafur Eliasson to suggest the...
View ArticleWine tourism comes of age
The best places to holiday include California and Alsace, where welcoming producers and well-developed wine routes offer something for everyoneWhen I was a child, my family went on holiday in wine...
View ArticleMy name is Jay Rayner and I’m a pest in the kitchen
I just can’t help meddling with other people’s cookingThere is a moment in the pitch perfect 1987 movie Broadcast News, about the television news industry, which has always spoken to me. Peter Hackes,...
View ArticleEmeli Sandé: ‘I loved spaghetti so much as a child that I’d eat it from the...
The singer on her dad’s Zambian dishes, eating noodles with Alicia Keys and writing songs about Angel DelightMy mother told me I loved spaghetti so much as a kid that she’d find me pulling spaghetti...
View ArticleLymeswold cheese: a warning from history
As Brexit looms, the 1980s saga of Britain’s enthusiasm for processed cheese seems oddly prescientOne unnerving thing about growing older is that there comes a day when you wake up to find serious...
View ArticleRecipes from St John: guinea fowl; ham, marrow and parsley sauce; fig and...
Life-saving salad, sweet tarts… six exclusive recipes from the new book by the founders of the pioneering British restaurant• Spreading the gospel of St John – interview Serves 4guinea fowl 1 whole,...
View Article‘A restaurant should be an old friend’: spreading the gospel of St John
Observer Food Monthly joins the influential London restaurant’s founders, Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver, in France on their way to the ‘best bar in the world’• Recipes from the new St John...
View ArticleWrappers delight: the chocolate taste test
What’s too sweet, what’s too salty – and can chef and cookery writer Florence Knight pick out the bestselling brand from our high street selection?Continue reading...
View ArticleWelcome to September’s Observer Food Monthly
This month we look at connecting cultures through food, have exclusive recipes from Greenfeast, and join Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver in France for St John’s annual summer partyOn a spring day...
View ArticleThe UK’s Chinese food revolution | Fuchsia Dunlop
Charting the 200-year journey from city docksides to Michelin stars as the UK finally explores new frontiers of Chinese cooking – from Hunan to XinjiangIn 1996, I sent my first proposal for a Sichuan...
View Article‘They saved me. They stood between me and the bomb’
David Califa was leading a group of food tourists in Istanbul in 2016 when three of them were killed in an Isis attack. But he was determined to go back to the city, its restaurants and his...
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