Reem Kassis: how I brought my Palestinian heritage to the table
The Arabesque Table tells of Kassis’s Palestinian family, while giving a modern twist to such dishes as fatteh, lentil soup and pistachio cakeBefore writing The Arabesque Table, Reem Kassis thought...
View ArticleHow Cuba's artists took to the kitchen to earn their crust in lockdown
As Covid pushed the island’s economy to the brink of collapse, musicians and film-makers found another way to be creative – cooking, baking and sellingNot far from Havana’s Plaza de la Revolucion,...
View ArticleWelcome to February's Observer Food Monthly
This month, we bring you recipes from Palestine, street food from Cuba and fishing tales from British shoresThere is much to devour in this month’s magazine. We have a dazzling set of recipes from Reem...
View ArticleOut of the blue: Nigel Slater's seafood recipes
Haddock tarragon pie, baked salmon with miso and lime, prawn cakes… fish and shellfish dishes with deep flavoursI go to the fishmongers with an open mind. No shopping list, not even the vaguest of...
View ArticleThanks for all the dietary advice. I'm ignoring it | Jay Rayner
So I’ve damaged my hip. But I don’t need your plant diets, vitamin secrets and wellness gurus. Nor do people who really are ill…Recently, we all got to have a laugh at bodily scented candlemonger and...
View ArticleAinsley Harriott: 'My sister still takes control of my cooking at home'
The chef and TV presenter on being lectured by his siblings, what to drink while playing backgammon – and cooking for his dogI have a painting of an old lady stirring a pot on a fire in a West Indian...
View ArticleI know why I'm restless. But why am I craving custard tarts and toffee?
As we hit the first anniversary of lockdown, I realise it’s people and places that I’m really hungry forThere were two branches of Thorntons in Sheffield when I was growing up, but because only one of...
View ArticleThe wannabe food influencer who's wanted by the FBI
When a man calling himself Gavin Ambani tried to make his mark on the London food scene, the story of a fraud hunt stretching from Hollywood to Indonesia followed in his wakeWhen a man calling himself...
View ArticleMy secret ingredient: boiled lemons
Claudia Roden, the revered author of classic recipe books on the food of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, reveals her favourite kitchen tip I first made boiled lemons by chance – many years ago –...
View ArticleSave the last slice for me: four cakes for Easter
Brilliant recipes for passion fruit panna cotta sponge, coconut tres leches, banana-cocoa and pecan brittle – and a chocolate mousse gateauA sponge soaked in passion fruit panna cotta makes a delicate...
View ArticleTaste test: the best high street Easter eggs
Dark to white, nougat to mint – pastry chef and Junior Bake Off judge Ravneet Gill rates this year’s best chocolate eggsBEST BUY Asda Extra Special The Mint One Dark Chocolate Egg245g, £5, asda.comI am...
View ArticleLen & Alex Deighton’s farewell Cookstrip
Len Deighton recalls his cookstrip years at the Observer and presents the last one: Filet de Boeuf en CroûteMy mother made the best trifle I’ve ever tasted. She taught me how to cook. I was always in...
View ArticleFlorence Knight's Easter recipes
Devilled eggs, jersey royals with watercress, honey-baked ham – Florence Knight serves up a spring feast rooted in nostalgiaEarly on Easter morning, I’ll be hiding eggs to continue a tradition that has...
View ArticleMeet the new breed of work from home chefs
Lockdown has seen an explosion in domestic food businesses, including takeaways and meal kits. Will it continue? The Covid-19 era has seen an explosion in food businesses based in people’s homes....
View ArticleWhat got me through lockdown? Sharing pork belly with the next-door...
Swapping missing ingredients and spare custard tarts over the garden wall made difficult times a little easier to live withTrue neighbourliness is a single onion sitting on a garden wall. It’s a nub...
View ArticleThe joy of eating out again. The pain of trying to get a table
‘Would you like to go on the waiting list?’ may now be the most terrible words in the English languageWhen Boris Johnson first announced the government’s roadmap out of lockdown, hope burned gently...
View ArticleNigella Lawson: ‘I can be ecstatically happy with just bread and cheese’
In an exchange of emails for Observer Food Monthly’s 20th anniversary, the broadcaster and writer explains how Twitter helped her through lockdown and what she eats on a night offWhat were you doing 20...
View ArticleNadiya Hussain: ‘I never even dreamed of being a part of all this’
For Observer Food Monthly’s 20th anniversary, the TV presenter and cook recalls baking cakes for her GCSEs 20 years ago – and the worst thing about cooking at home in a pandemicIn 2015, Nadiya...
View Article20 years of Observer Food Monthly: recipes from the stars of the future
For OFM’s 20th anniversary, we introduce four up-and-coming chefs – Pamela Yung, Hasan Semay, Adejoké Bakare and Lorna McNee – and their brilliant recipesHead chef at Flor and Asap Pizza,...
View Article20 years of Observer Food Monthly: 20 key moments in food
From MasterChef to Noma, and street food to the rise of female chefsBy the time OFM launched in April 2001, Gordon, Heston, Hugh, Jamie and others were already on a spectacular trajectory. These were...
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