classy box of twelve unadorned mini eggs in dark, milk or white chocolate, flavoured with hazelnut, caramel, almond, nougatine, pecan and pistachio, made by […]

hen life gives you lemons... as it seems it might have done this Easter, make them chocolate ones. Waitrose's lemon-flavoured, decorated hollow white chocolate lemons […]

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nce memorably described by restaurant critic Tom Parker Bowles as 'a gastropub wearing handmade Lobbs’, the  Sir Charles Napier is the kind of country pub […]

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nder everything there's something.  If your culinary life resembles this graphic description of the heaped piles of paraphernalia to be found in Somerville and Ross's […]

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t's astonishing how different fresh cinnamon tastes compared to the woody supermarket spice-pot variety. And how difficult, historically, it has been to find. But since […]

Chris Hirst savours the most famous nibble in literature She [Marcel’s mother] sent for one of those squat plump little cakes called “petites madeleines,” which look […]