The 50 best wines for Christmas 2019
High street bargains, best value buys – and reds, whites and fizz to splash out on, chosen for Observer Food MonthlyVoyage au Sud VermentinoPays d’Oc, France 2018 (£5.99, Waitrose)A white grape variety...
View ArticleWelcome to November’s Observer Food Monthly
Get Christmas planned early with recipes from Simon Hopkinson and Nigel Slater, gifts for food lovers, and delicious seasonal cocktails and mocktailsHey ho, it’s that time of year again. Well, not...
View ArticleThe 50 best wines for Christmas 2019
High street bargains, best value buys – and reds, whites and fizz to splash out on, chosen for Observer Food MonthlyVoyage au Sud VermentinoPays d’Oc, France 2018 (£5.99, Waitrose)A white grape variety...
View ArticleWelcome to November’s Observer Food Monthly
Get Christmas planned early with recipes from Simon Hopkinson and Nigel Slater, gifts for food lovers, and delicious seasonal cocktails and mocktailsHey ho, it’s that time of year again. Well, not...
View ArticleThe 50 best wines for Christmas 2019
High street bargains, best value buys – and reds, whites and fizz to splash out on, chosen for Observer Food MonthlyVoyage au Sud VermentinoPays d’Oc, France 2018 (£5.99, Waitrose)A white grape variety...
View ArticleWelcome to November’s Observer Food Monthly
Get Christmas planned early with recipes from Simon Hopkinson and Nigel Slater, gifts for food lovers, and delicious seasonal cocktails and mocktailsHey ho, it’s that time of year again. Well, not...
View ArticleThe 50 best wines for Christmas 2019
High street bargains, best value buys – and reds, whites and fizz to splash out on, chosen for Observer Food MonthlyVoyage au Sud VermentinoPays d’Oc, France 2018 (£5.99, Waitrose)A white grape variety...
View ArticleMindful eating gurus call for silence at the table. Where’s the fun in that?
Let’s hear it for mindless eating: for noise and clamour, for shouting and burpingAmid the blizzard of diet cobblers that fills my inbox at this time of year, generally promising to cleanse you of all...
View ArticleRise and shine: five brilliant brunch recipes
Perfect dishes for lazy weekends: frittata with bacon salad, crepes with egg and ham, apple and custard brioche bunsBuckwheat flour is one of my favourite flours to bake with, it goes with both savoury...
View ArticleSheku Kanneh-Mason: ‘I once made pasta in a kettle. I wouldn’t recommend it’
The award-winning cellist talks about eating with his six siblings, the post-concert pint and what he ate at Harry and Meghan’s weddingI’ve got five sisters and one brother. That made me eat very...
View ArticleThe only diet you can stick with is one you can enjoy
Dry January, Veganuary … when it all gets a bit much, reach for something simple like shepherd’s pie or mushroom soupBy the time you read this, it will all be over: the advice about what to do in...
View ArticleI eat only strangers' leftover food – and it's the best diet I've ever had
To try to combat the mountain of food waste, diabetic Andrew Mayers decided to live on what people chuck in the bin. Even if it’s two doughnuts and a cucumberMy NHS dietician says that January is a...
View ArticleWhen Nigel Slater met Nadiya Hussain
Over curry and cake, two of the UK’s best-loved food writers talk about family, anxiety and learning to cope with life in the public eyeIt is almost lunchtime when Nadiya Hussain arrives at my front...
View Article20 of the UK's best restaurants – as chosen by Britain’s top chefs
Secret gems and neighbourhood hideaways where chefs love to eat: from a cafe lunch in Cornwall to a tasting menu on the Scottish coast Silk Road, London SE5Chosen by James Cochran, chef-owner,...
View ArticleJonathan Safran Foer: ‘Why don’t Extinction Rebellion issue specific ideas?...
The bestselling author explains why simple changes to our diet are a good way to address the climate crisisThere have been many proposed solutions to the climate crisis – from outright bans on fossil...
View ArticleTaste test: kimchi, kefir and kombucha – the best fermented foods
From sourdough to sauerkraut – chef and food writer Olia Hercules tastes and rates high-street fermented foodsAll products are blind-testedContinue reading...
View ArticleLow alcohol wines don't have to taste awful. Try these…
Not all zero- or low-alcohol wines have had their soul removedCan a wine be a wine without alcohol? Not according to the European Union it can’t. Who knows what will happen to legal definitions in the...
View ArticleWelcome to January’s Observer Food Monthly
Brilliant brunch recipes, 20 great restaurants for 2020, and my lunch with Nadiya HussainMeet the gutter gourmet. A man so horrified by the amount of takeaway food he saw being thrown away that he...
View ArticleFive recipes for a Chinese new year feast
Celebrate China’s lunar new year with classic and updated dishes, including dongpo pork, stir-fried okra and braised fish with chilliesThe diversity of Chinese cuisines is extraordinary but one food...
View ArticleWhy am I supposed to like gin? It’s just ruined vodka
It’s today’s artisanal craft drink, often marketed by cheery fellas in flat caps. But, to me, gin tastes like musty leaf matterLet me confess. I live daily with the fear that, like Hector in Alan...
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