Food

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 series The Bear could trigger a bipolar episode.The restaurateur and 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 tinned cherry bakewell pudding | The sweet spot

There’s something comforting about a bakewell-style pudding. After I had my son Donnie, I’d pop one in the...

‘You don’t need animals to make real meat’: the man who grows chicken in a lab

I’m looking at the future. I have to squint: it’s a slight opaqueness on the surface of a conical flask of clear liquid, being...

Have pastry-making methods changed? | Kitchen aide

The short answer is no. How you make pastry now is most likely similar to, if not exactly the same as how it was...

From kimchi to kombucha, it’s easy to ferment at home. Here’s all the kit you need

The theory is simple: fruit and vegetables (and grains and milk, but fermenting those is more complex) contain natural bacteria which, when deprived of...

Nigel Slater’s recipe for chilled rice pudding and late summer compote

Put 95g of round grain pudding rice into a saucepan, pour in 320ml of full cream milk and the same of water. Using a...

Thomasina Miers’ late-summer sausage and pea cassoulet with a butter leaf salad – recipes

I cooked at a festival near Bristol recently where another chef made pasta tossed with peas; whole peas that burst with each mouthful and...

‘The ultimate fakeaway’: posh pizzas take over UK supermarket shelves

If you were in the mood for pizza the supermarket choice used to be straightforward – fresh or frozen, thin or thick, margherita or...