Food

What’s the silliest question you can ask a restaurant critic? (And yes, I have the answer) | Jay Rayner

Who is the best member of your family? Not your favourite relative, which may be an easy question to answer. No, the best – the person who in every...

Heston Blumenthal fears watching TV series The Bear could trigger bipolar episode

Heston Blumenthal has said he fears that watching the high pressure depictions of kitchen life in the TV...

Nigel Slater’s recipe for orzo, smoked mozzarella and thyme

If I could choose just one dish for a cold autumn evening, it would be this calming, gentle...

Nigel Slater’s recipes for a teatime fruit cake and an orange and almond layer cake

An urgent need for cake. An old-fashioned one, studded with dried fruit, or perhaps a slice of something...

Cocktail of the week: Corrochio’s espresso martini de olla – recipe | The good mixer

Café de olla is a Mexican breakfast staple made from coffee brewed with spices, orange peel and piloncillo,...

Ravneet Gill’s recipe for apple fritters | The sweet spot

These strike the perfect balance between something refreshing and decadent, without being too sweet. My husband and I devoured these fritters for brunch, and...

How to make the perfect corn chowder – recipe | Felicity Cloake

If there’s a single ingredient that unites Americans from Cape Horn to Canada, it’s maize. One of the sacred Three Sisters of indigenous north...

Store cupboard saviours: how to make the most out of tinned sardines – recipes

Little fish, big flavour. A tin of silvery sardines bathed in oil or tomato will give you a headstart on dinner, whether they’re left...

Campbell’s to drop soup from company name after 102 years

Bosses at Campbell Soup Company, whose cans feature in one of Andy Warhol’s best known 1960s pop artworks, have announced plans to drop ‘soup’...

What are the best things to put on toast? | Kitchen aide

Sometimes, only toast will do, whether it’s thickly cut and slathered with butter (and maybe combined with flaky salt and topped with sliced radishes),...

Nigel Slater’s recipe for baked potatoes, rollmops and capers

Set the oven at 200C/gas mark 6. Scrub 400g of potatoes thoroughly, then slice them thinly – the thickness of a £1 coin would...