Fergus Henderson MBE, chef and restaurateur The cookbook that has most influenced your cooking? When Marcella Hazan’s Classic Italian Cooking arrived in our house, it changed our […]

Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver celebrate 25 years at St John with 100 new recipes. Here are two of our favourites: Grilled Lamb’s Hearts, Peas and […]

Anna Hedworth, Cook, owner of Cook House The cookbook that has most influenced your cooking The Art of Living According to Joe Beef: A Cookbook of Sorts, […]

Cafe with 14th century backdrop - Edan Ambrose finds the perfect place for a cuppa rchitecturally speaking, Winchester is a town of two halves. On the […]

efore summer finally ends and you're still in the mood for ice cream... gloriously smooth and nutty Nocciola Gelato is made from hazelnuts grown by […]

Cerys Matthews MBE, musician, cookbook author, radio presenter The cookbook that has most influenced your cooking Wild Food by Roger Phillips for showing me the edible plants, […]

Christopher Hirst samples the food ahead of its time that bonded the menages a trois of Bloomsbury ncluding such stellar figures as the novelist Virginia Woolf, […]

Jelly with summer soft fruits Serves 4 4 leaves gelatine 1 pt (568ml) sanguinello (blood orange) juice Varied soft fruit: raspberries, blackberries, blueberries. Soak the gelatine in cold water for […]

The American novelist Willa Cather spent most of her adult life in Manhattan, but never forgot her Nebraskan childhood. My Ántonia, published in 1918, is a love […]

here used to be only one answer to stress in uncertain times, and that was a bar of gloriously unfancy Cadbury’s Dairy Milk, but its […]

Though it has been overtaken by fashionable cereals, Christopher Hirst says you should get cracking with a boiled egg n egg is always an adventure; the […]

f you want to stuff in more food during a banquet, then eat while reclining on your left side.  That allows your stomach to stretch […]

When she married Vincent Price, the actress Coral Browne went to live in Hollywood. On one occasion she and Vincent were invited to a party […]

oth beautiful and useful, the new Tala stoneware Mixing Bowl, part of their Indigo and Ivory Corn range, comes in a gorgeous dark blue decorated […]

According to Enid Blyton, a simple but sublime addition to any picnic or high tea was the no-frills hard-boiled egg... he phrase “lashings of ginger beer”,  […]