Fergus and Margot Henderson: ‘A half pig’s head – it’s romance on a plate’
For Observer Food Monthly’s 20th anniversary, the first couple of British food recall favourite meals and being ‘mother hens’ to a generation of cooksAround the time Boris Johnson had coronavirus,...
View ArticleMy secret ingredient: colatura di alici
Chef Jeremy Lee on the precious anchovy condiment that adds roundness to dishes such as braised lamb and porchetta tonnatoAlici is the essence of anchovy and it’s a very precious condiment. It comes in...
View Article20 years of Observer Food Monthly: Nigel Slater’s five star ingredients
Two decades ago, beetroot was more likely to be found in a pickle jar and cauliflower under a mornay sauce. Here are five foods that had a ‘moment’ in the past twenty yearsWhat and how we eat has...
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 ArticleWho knew that filling the freezer with stew and curry could be so emotional?
Food is often linked to nostalgia, but it turns out cooking for the future can be emotive tooA Saturday afternoon and I am in the kitchen, ministering to a steaming pot of pork and chorizo stew, much...
View ArticleJay Blades: ‘When I was at rock bottom, I ate a box of Farley’s Rusks. It was...
The Repair Shop presenter on school dinners, seaside eating competitions and food that heals the soul I call my real “father” TMWCTMB– “The Man Who Contributed Towards My Birth”. He didn’t come into my...
View ArticleOut go the blankets, in comes the thrill of eating indoors
The return of indoor dining is a gentle sign that happier days could soon be with usOne Sunday last month, a group of us met for lunch in a friend’s garden. She had ordered in the most perfectly flaky...
View ArticleWe can get a table inside again – but what’s the long-term future of...
Restaurants across the UK are ready to open, indoors and out. We ask a top chef, a restaurateur and a street food team where the hospitality industry will go from hereTom KerridgeThe Hand &...
View ArticleThe new food stars of TikTok
The app’s snappy videos are the new gateway to food fame. Its breakout stars explain the secrets of their successWhen Poppy O’Toole was made redundant from her job as junior sous chef at the AllBright...
View ArticleMy secret ingredient: Sichuan chilli bean paste
Fuchsia Dunlop on a versatile ingredient that’s a key to mapo doufu – and her father’s shepherd’s pieSichuan chilli bean paste is one of the most important and distinctive ingredients of Sichuanese...
View ArticleUyen Luu’s easy Vietnamese recipes
The secret to perfect pork noodle soup, pillowy tofu, and coconut rice, peach and ginger puddingThis very simple noodle soup really hits the spot every time and is great for days when you want a soup...
View ArticleFerdinand ‘Budgie’ Montoya’s Filipino family recipes
Chicken in coconut vinegar, vegetables with fermented shrimp, and cassava cheesecake – the Sarap chef’s homage to his mother’s cooking I was born in Mindanao, in the south of the Philippines, but I...
View ArticleDo old vines really make the best wines?
There’s a reason winemakers are hunting for abandoned vineyards from Spain to CaliforniaOld vines have a strange effect on winemakers. They exert an emotional pull close to enchantment – a kind of...
View ArticleFresh peas, asparagus, wild garlic – Nigel Slater’s revitalising spring recipes
Broad beans with new potatoes, and cucumber, chickpea and prawns – spring recipes to encourage the green shoots of recoveryMay always feels like the greenest of months. The fizz of new leaves in the...
View ArticleThe best way to eat out to help out? Pay a fairer price for your meal
The pandemic made it clear that restaurants are not some get-rich-quick scheme. And it’s underpaid staff who bear the bruntA few weeks ago, a restaurant in London’s King’s Cross emailed its regular...
View ArticleHelen Glover: ‘I’ve never demonstrated self-restraint with ice-cream’
The Olympic rower talks about her family’s ice-cream business, eating two breakfasts and barbecuing fish on Cornish beachesMy dad has an ice-cream shop in Newlyn, Cornwall, called Jelbert’s. It’s been...
View ArticleEven when the pandemic has passed I’ll still make a meal of mealtimes
The days of bulk-buying pasta may be over, but some lockdown habits – setting the table or shopping locally – are worth keepingAre we there yet? I’m not sure. The cartoonist Adrian Tomine’s latest New...
View ArticleLove and microwaved eggs – my dinners at Dad’s
When Clare Finney’s parents divorced, she discovered her kind, clever father was fallible in one place – the kitchenI have absolutely no memory of dinners before my parents’ divorce, which is odd...
View ArticleSeafood recipes from around the UK coast
Mussels with sherry and burnt cream, plaice and cauliflower pickle, and the ultimate fish-finger sandwich – chefs share their favourite dishesThe 22 best places to eat on the UK coastContinue reading...
View ArticleShore things: the 22 best places to eat seafood around the UK coast
From crab shacks to beach hotels, top chefs share their favourite places to find great fish and sea viewsContinue reading...
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