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What's it like to run a restaurant with your family?
Are arguments on the menu? Five family food partnerships tell us their secretsDarina & Rachel Allen Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law at the Ballymaloe Cookery School, Co Cork; both writers,...
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Simon Hopkinson: I drank Sarson's vinegar from the bottle from a young age
The food writer and cook on life as an apprentice, his dad's cooking and his collection of mixersMy earliest memory is sucking a wine gum on Sidmouth beach and a wasp, attracted by the smell, flying...
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What's the best meal I've ever eaten?
Was it the 42 courses at El Bulli or that freshly boiled crab in West Mersea? Or maybe it's all about the people who were thereAs a restaurant critic there's one question – other than "how do you live...
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Bruno Loubet and the way of the vegetable
The French chef's new restaurant isn't vegetarian – but it does give veg more than equal billing• Try Bruno Loubet's Grain Store recipesAnybody who has eaten Bruno Loubet's famed hare royale dish at...
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Recipes from Bruno Loubet's new restaurant
From a corn and quinoa tamale to a chocolate brownie and pear tart, recipes from the French chef's new restaurant Grain Store. It's not vegetarian – but the veg gets equal star billingPotato and rye...
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The best wines to serve with vegetable dishes
The trick is to find flavours that complement your food or contrast with itI've been having a lot of fun over the past few months with Niki Segnit's The Flavour Thesaurus, a Christmas present that has...
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Fries with Matt Dillon
Hitting the bars of Kansas with the Rumble Fish star back in 1987On a day off from playing a bank robber in the film Kansas in 1987, Matt Dillon was keen to drive me around the movie's location, a town...
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Nigel Slater: Welcome to OFM's May issue
Nigel Slater introduces Observer Food Monthly's almost meat-free isssueThe baking renaissance aside, there has been no greater change to our national diet than the part that vegetables are now playing....
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The beginner's guide to growing your own veg
Organic farmer Alice Holden's advice on what to plant when• Try Alice Holden's courgette risotto recipeTen years ago, Alice Holden was figuring out what to do with her life. She'd just left university...
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Courgette risotto and tempura courgette flowers recipe
Alice Holden's family recipe might tempt you to grow your own vegCourgette flowers are difficult to come by unless you know a grower or grow them yourself. Like many of the best things in life, they...
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Kitchen experiments: stare disgusting in the face | Jay Rayner
Marmite bread, pork that tastes of fish – culinary experiments don't always work, but they're always worth tryingOnce, when I was a home-alone teenager, I did something disgusting to a mackerel. I...
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Florence Knight's simple summer recipes
Florence Knight, the head chef at London's Polpo, is cooking's new golden girl. Here are exclusive dishes from her new book, One: A Cook and Her Cupboard: from drowned tomatoes, braised lettuce and...
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Florence Knight, cooking's new golden girl
Head chef at Polpo, about to publish her first book – at 26, Florence Knight is the next big thing. She owes it all, she says, to her late fatherOn 26 May 2012, Polpetto, perhaps the buzziest, most...
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The 20 best summer wines
The best bottles on the shelves for a British summer – no matter how the weather turns outWhite winesFinest Falanghina, Puglia, Italy 2012(£6.99, Tesco)One of the more welcome developments in the wine...
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How to make perfect raspberry ripple ice cream
It's easier to make homemade ice cream than you think, says La Grotta Ices' Kitty Travers. No fancy equipment, just a bowl, a thermometer and a whiskWhen Kitty Travers sells her homemade ice cream at...
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Picnic foods: taste test
From quiches to couscous, lemonade to scotch eggs, Gizzi Erskine tastes and rates the best al fresco summer foodsCloudy lemonadeSelfridgesFentimans Victorian lemonade275ml, £1.79, selfridges.comTastes...
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Never trust anyone who is rude to a waiter
There's a lot of bad behaviour in restaurants these days. But I always follow my gran's rule …I remember my grandmother telling me that if I were ever to marry, I should make sure he was kind. But she...
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Nigel Slater's quick and easy recipes
Flatten a piece of meat with a rolling pin, and supper will be ready in 15 minutes, says Nigel Slater. Gammon with broad beans, chicken with taleggio and pork fillet with apple – perfect for a warm...
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Photographer Richard Saker follows chef Jason Atherton for a week on a tour of the far east outposts of his restaurant empire
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Little Social's steak tartare recipe
Try a dish from one of Jason Atherton's new London restaurants, Little Social, which opened earlier this year across the road from the original Pollen Street Social in Mayfair(Serves four)For the...
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