How to buy (relatively) affordable Burgundy wines
While some of the region’s wines are astronomically expensive, you can still find great drinks to suit more modest budgets Comparisons between France’s two most celebrated regions for still wines have...
View ArticleAsma Khan’s secret ingredient: nutmeg
The chef and restaurateur on the spice that always reminds her of Indian family weddingsNutmeg is not something we historically had in India, it came with the spice trade. It’s a warming, winter spice....
View ArticleTarunima Sinha’s recipes for cakes, bakes and your new best friands
Sweet, salty, savoury and beautifully balanced recipes, perfect for the start of autumnBefore Tarunima Sinha moved to the UK in 2000 to get married, she had only ever eaten two types of cake. They were...
View ArticleGilbert & George: ‘We’re art’s outsiders. We never wanted to eat lasagne at...
The artists, who never keep food at home, walk through the East End with Observer Food Monthly before lunch at their regular cafeWhen I knock on their front door in Fournier Street in London’s...
View ArticleStanley Tucci’s timpano recipe
Step-by-step instructions on how to create the film star’s family classic• Jay Rayner: the day I cooked timpano with TucciThe dough for timpano is rolled out into a thin round, the diameter of which is...
View ArticleThe day I cooked timpano with Stanley Tucci
The giant Italian pie was the centrepiece of the star’s Big Night film. Now he’s invited me round to his house to make it• Now try cooking Tucci’s timpano yourselfGetting your homework marked by...
View ArticleDown in the woods with our top truffle dealer … and his dog
Zak Frost supplies England’s best restaurants. And he couldn’t do it without his truffle hound, StanleyMy train leaves Paddington and drones through the bleak industrial penumbra of London. I’m on my...
View ArticleFrozen in Time: Anthony Bourdain, New York, May 2001
Photographed for issue three of Observer Food Monthly, the chef is all innocence and enthusiasm, on the cusp of life-changing successHe sits at a round two-top in Les Halles restaurant on Park Avenue....
View ArticleNigel Slater’s recipes for apple and blackberry pie, butternut tart and...
Autumn’s orange and purple plenty fills pies, tops tarts and sings roasted to go in main dishesThe market stalls are a tapestry of ochre and dark green. There are fat pumpkins and bunches of cavolo...
View ArticleOne restaurant has been a part of our family. Now we mourn its passing | Jay...
We measured out the landmarks of our lives at London’s Y Ming. So long, and thanksMy family has suffered a great loss. We will still have our memories, of course, each one suffused with a warm glow....
View ArticleEdith Bowman: ‘I had a hangover for most of my Radio 1 career’
The broadcaster on what she ate at her grandparents’ hotel, during her Radio 1 breakfast show and in a Japanese monastery My grandad started this little hotel in Scotland before I was born; my mum’s...
View ArticleWorried about waste and too much ‘stuff’? Get rid of fitted kitchens
Our kitchen lives are changing for aesthetic and green reasons. I wonder if meat safes will make a comebackAs usual, I was procrastinating, putting off the moment when I settled down to write, by...
View ArticleRick Stein’s secret ingredient: vincotto
An Italian red-wine syrup that will add oomph to your life – and your raguVincotto is a non-fermented grape must which is reduced to a syrup. I came across it in Puglia. I go virtually every year to a...
View Article‘You can’t run a team on empty’: how the restaurant staff meal is changing
Restaurant workers once lived on coffee and cigarettes. Now more chefs are cooking for one other, making food good enough to end up on the menuNaturally, you would assume chefs eat well at work. These...
View ArticleChristmas gifts for food lovers 2021
From stocking fillers to luxury presents, as selected by Observer Food MonthlyBao saucesContinue reading...
View ArticleThe 50 best wines for Christmas 2021
From bargain soave to posh champagne, Observer Food Monthly’s expert guide to the best bottles to suit any budget Morrisons Soave Italy 2020(£4.35, Morrisons)An unfussy, uncomplicated but very useful...
View ArticleStephen Graham's dramatic year: prison, care home … now a kitchen nightmare
The in-demand actor’s latest role? Playing a stroppy chef on the busiest night of the year in the single-take drama Boiling Point Walking into the restaurant to meet Stephen Graham doesn’t just feel...
View ArticleNigel Slater’s recipes for the Christmas season
Roast pork and green olives, mushrooms with herbed hummus, pear biscuit cake – the menu to see you through the festivitiesYou can plan Christmas dinner. A neat list in black ink on white paper – a...
View ArticleHow to ace Christmas in the kitchen
Don’t buy too much cheese. Do buy enough washing-up liquid. Keep the big day stress-free with our tips from top chefsFestive shifts at a butcher’s shop are exhausting, with customers at their best and...
View ArticleAndi Oliver’s Christmas recipes: spice-rubbed roast chicken; slow-roast...
This festive menu from the chef and Great British Menu presenter fuses classics from her Antiguan heritage with delicious vegan optionsChristmas can be a stressful, combative time and the Oliver...
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