Diana Henry, award-winning food writer and author of eleven books The cookbook that has most influenced your cooking I bought the Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook and Claudia […]

rather belated search for a venue suitable for a Mother’s Day dinner (near and quiet for the benefit of tottering oldies; cool and in […]

Formerly a Vietnam war correspondent and political journalist. R.W ‘Johnny’ Apple (1934-2006), ended a 40-year stint on the New York Times by exploring the foods […]

  n 1992, Family Circle Magazine inaugurated a head-to-head cookie-baking challenge that has become a fixture of US presidential campaigns ever since. The competition began in […]

Nina Caplan, arts, wine, and travel journalist; winner of the 2018 Fortnum & Mason  Drink Writer The cookbook that has most influenced your cooking Moro: The Cookbook. […]

Deliciously old-fashioned, famous for its rose and violet creams, Audreys, the East Sussex chocolatier, is ready for Easter. Edan Ambrose investigates udreys, the product of a […]

The Resurrection of Viognier In the first of a new series on wine, John Walsh reflects on the grape that has been around since the Romans, […]

Nordic crockery Sensuous organic shapes in a pleasing pale colour-palette mixed with dark browns and slate blues and greys, make these Skandi ceramics very modern kitchen-friendly […]

Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi, restaurateurs, cookery school owners, food writers and chefs The cookbook that has most influenced your cooking Katie: Delia Smith’s Summer Cooking.  I think […]

Ginger Pig online The Ginger Pig, high class butchers based in Yorkshire with a chain of shops in London, goes nationwide on 5th March with the […]

Christopher Hirst explores some unlikely partnerships for rhubarb n his great work Rhubarb: The Wondrous Drug, Clifford Faust explains 'the several advantages' of my home turf […]

 little-known aspect of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is his culinary prowess. His recipes were collected in a beautifully illustrated book called The Art of Cuisine (co-written […]

Helen Gurley Brown, editor of American Cosmopolitan, first started dieting in 1959 in preparation for her wedding day...and never stopped. The woman who believed in […]

Bart van Olphen, co-founder of Fish Tales and winner of the 2018 Edward Stanford Food and Travel Book of the Year The cookbook that has most […]

  andwich in Kent, one of the Cinque ports, has many things to recommend it, not least its own railway station which means you can hop […]