5 essential summer salads
Bright dishes for hot days, from Sami Tamimi’s watermelon and halloumi to Uyen Luu’s lemongrass steak, watercress and rice noodlesTwo things typical of a British summer are garden barbecues, and the...
View ArticleThe staycation is back: packed lunches, damp sand and all
After months of being cooped up, Rachel Cooke is looking forward to a British seaside holiday like the ones from her childhood – but with fewer hard-boiled eggsWhen I was 12, or thereabouts, my granny...
View ArticleLen & Alex Deighton’s Mexican Cookstrips: Sinaloa Chicken
Alex: We first went to Mexico when you wrote Mexico Set.Len: Remember the street vendors on the road to Taxco selling barbecued iguana?Alex: Not much iguana around now. But there’s always Sinaloa...
View ArticleSuper bowls: Burmese recipes by the Rangoon Sisters
Amy and Emily Chung’s brilliant debut cookbook of family recipes includes mohinga, tomato and crunchy peanut salad, and mango and coconut meringuesAmy and Emily Chung, AKA the Rangoon Sisters, are...
View ArticleLife lessons from my grandparents' kitchen
Shahnaz Ahsan recalls how shopping and cooking with her Bengali family in Manchester shaped her life and her debut novelThere’s a saying among Bengalis that we only truly care about three things:...
View ArticlePinot noir: the diva of the vineyard takes centre stage
It’s a fussy, temperamental grape and it used to cost a fortune. Now it’s being grown from California to Tasmania – and it’s more affordable Pinot noir is the world’s most dangerously seductive grape...
View ArticleWelcome to July's Observer Food Monthly
Dazzling summer salads, seaside holidays and a special report on the future of restaurantsThere is much to get your teeth into in this issue. As the hospitality industry meets the challenge of getting...
View ArticleThanks to lockdown, the business lunch is dead. Here's how to revive it
The brooding, agitated psychodrama in three courses is no more. Time for a more enjoyable alternativeWhen I was nine, I thought adult glamour was owning one of those really flat Italian racers, the...
View ArticleTom Kerridge: ‘My relationship with food and alcohol has been excessive – now...
The Michelin-starred chef on hot dogs at rugby, kitchen nicknames – and why he doesn’t like watching himself on TVMy first food memory is eating corned beef and mustard in a hot crusty roll while...
View ArticleWhy Boris Johnson's new anti-obesity strategy makes me reach for the chocolate
‘LET’S DO THIS’ shout the advertising slogans. But do what exactly?As I understand it, simple soul that I am, advertising is supposed to be immediate. The idea is for people to know pretty quickly what...
View ArticleThe best thing I ate in the summer of lockdown
Chefs and food writers pick their memorable dishes in a season transformed by coronavirus. Standout moments: ice cream in Sicily and pizza from a secret vanFuchsia DunlopFood writerContinue reading...
View Article‘We’re stewards of our land’: the rise of female farmers
Nearly one in five farmers are women, with the number rising all the time. We ask four of them about their lives, work and a year of challengesOn 23 March, the night lockdown was announced, Catherine...
View ArticleLen & Alex Deighton’s Mexican Cookstrips: corn
Alex: Sometimes you need a little esquites and sometimes you need elote.Len: That’s the corniest joke I’ve ever heard. Len Deighton is the author of the Action Cookbook and French Cooking for Men...
View ArticleThe bakery teaching disadvantaged women cooking – and life – skills
Luminary Bakery started as a way of finding women work, but it quickly became much more. Here is its story, plus six delicious recipes from its new cookbook‘What I love about baking is that it...
View ArticleFive west African recipes from Lopè Ariyo
Scallops and okra, plantain cobbler and a Nigerian take on fried chicken – contemporary west African cooking from Lopè Ariyo When I went to university in Loughborough, my relationship with food changed...
View ArticleWelcome to August's Observer Food Monthly
This month we bring you tales from female farmers, the bakery helping vulnerable women find work and west African recipes with a twistWe have a collection of extraordinary stories for you. The Luminary...
View ArticleNigel Slater's work-from-home lunch recipes
Get away from your desk to enjoy pastrami sandwiches, crispy-fried kefir chicken, and raspberry burrata focacciaI work from home, but I refuse to eat at my desk. It is one of those small rules of life...
View ArticleI put negative reviews on pause after lockdown. Here's why that must continue
Restaurants have been hit hard by coronavirus – so there’s no point in me being brutal. I’m going to carry on finding positives, and ignoring the mediocreSometimes, in the woozy minutes before sleep...
View ArticleI'd had enough of Zoom – until I took a homemade sushi class
At last, I have acquired a lockdown skill. Now I just need to work on the presentationIn 1994, or thereabouts, I was working the kind of hours that meant lunch was always eaten at my desk – and thanks...
View ArticleRóisín Murphy: ‘In my pregnancy I was fed like a goose being fattened up’
The singer-songwriter talks about her mum’s proper dinners, the horror of andouillette, and working on an empty stomachI don’t worry about getting food on my clothes. I don’t have any respect for my...
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