Autumn recipes from Nigel Slater's new cookbook
Dishes from the plant-based Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter – gnocchi and peas, orecchiette and cheese, chocolate and cantucciDinner is different in winter. The change starts late on a summer’s evening,...
View ArticleElif Shafak: ‘I thought the British were calm about politics. Not any longer’
The Booker-shortlisted novelist is in self-imposed exile from Turkey, where she fears arrest. But here in Britain, she likes food that brings back memories of IstanbulElif Shafak’s most recent novel,...
View ArticleThe great 1970s wine revival
Lambrusco, muscadet, Bull’s Blood: after years of neglect, some wines have returned as retro-vintage starsWhatever happened to the bestselling wines of the 1970s and 80s? Some, happily, are no longer...
View ArticleFlaccid croissants, oil-drenched carbs. Yes, I’m on the road again
The UK food revolution has bypassed the likes of public transport and motorway service stations. Why must we still suffer like this?Welcome to gastronomic hell. Or, to be more exact, seat 24, carriage...
View ArticleQuestlove: bagels with Amy Winehouse, fish and chips with the Roots
The drummer and frontman on food and music, his friendship with Anthony Bourdain and much, much moreWhat we know as southern soul food, which was primarily survival food for a lot of black people in...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2019: Best Sunday lunch – the runners-up
Everyone’s favourite meal, whether it’s a veggie feast in Southampton or classic Yorkshires in, well, Yorkshire – as voted by OFM readersBest Sunday lunch 2019 – the winnerParlour, Kensal GreenFor...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2019: Outstanding achievement – Refugee Community Kitchen
They’ve served 2.3m meals to refugees in France and the UK’s homeless. The winners of this year’s award, chosen by our panel of judges, explain why they had to do what they doAt 5.30pm, two unmarked...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2019: Best Sunday lunch – The Bank Tavern, Bristol
At this cosy city centre pub – voted by OFM readers as their favourite Sunday lunch spot – you might catch the landlord hauling in a deer or enjoy great vegetables from a regular’s allotmentBest Sunday...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2019: Best food personality – Jamie Oliver
‘I’m a bit battered and bruised, but I’m optimistic,’ says the campaigning chef who has been voted by OFM readers as their personality of the yearJamie Oliver has had a year. It was a year that kicked...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2019: Lifetime achievement – Claudia Roden
The recipes she has collected for nearly 60 years have inspired today’s chefs and brought a world of new flavours into our homesSomeone once told Claudia Roden that she couldn’t write about Jewish food...
View ArticleLen & Alex Deighton’s Spanish Cookstrips: Vegan patatas bravas
Len In Spain no one cooks this at home; every tapas bar serves it. Alex Many make a meat-based salsa brava and egg mayonnaise allioli. Ours is vegan. Len Deighton is the author of the Action Cookbook...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2019: Best new cookbook – Khazana by Saliha Mahmood Ahmed
The MasterChef winner on the secrets of her book on Indo-Persian cuisine, voted by OFM readers as their favourite of 2019It’s not quite what you’d expect a MasterChef winner to do next. After Saliha...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2019: Best newcomer – Master Wei, London
Having impressed our panel of judges, chef Guirong Wei tells of her journey from a mountain village to her brilliant Bloomsbury restaurantWhile Sichuanese cuisine has been well known in London for more...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2019: Best restaurant – The Oystermen, London
Matt Lovell and Rob Hampton started out working weddings and music festivals – they even fed Grace Jones. Now their restaurant has been voted your favourite place to eatBest restaurant – full list of...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2019: Best Instagram feed – Miguel Barclay
Miguel Barclay’s knack for easy recipes that cost less than a pound made him a social media phenomenon – and our readers’ choice for this awardBefore he launched his Instagram account in May 2016,...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2019: Best restaurant – the runners-up
Readers vote for their favourite restaurants – from steaks and seafood in Belfast to authentic Vietnamese in north LondonBest restaurant 2019 – the winnerThe Barbary, Covent GardenSit at the horseshoe...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2019: Best place to drink – 1000 Trades, Birmingham
Craft beer with the atmosphere of a traditional boozer – that’s the winning blend voted for by OFM readers Best place to drink – full list of runners-up from across the UKFittingly, the origin of 1000...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2019: Best place to drink – the runners-up
From gin joints in the west country to whiskies with Highland panoramas – readers vote for their favourite places to drinkBest place to drink 2019 – the winnerThe Kenton, HackneyNorway meets east...
View ArticleNigel Slater’s autumn recipes to take time over
Spiced rice and pumpkin, comforting beef rib and potato, raspberry mille-feuille: layered recipes, contrasting autumn flavoursI am on the brink of lighting the first fire of the year. In fact, by the...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2019: Local food hero – Tommy Banks
The Black Swan chef, chosen for this award by OFM’s panel of judges, tells how he made a family pub ‘in the middle of nowhere’ an inspirational restaurant at the heart of his Yorkshire communityOn the...
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