It’s late summer, and with that comes arguably some of the finest produce: intensely sweet fruit such as peaches and greengages, which can be incorporated …
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Aperitivo hour: Emiko Davies’ recipes for bite-sized Venetian snacks | Italian food and drink
Cicchetti are a way of life in Venice. Think of these morsels as appetisers, aperitivo, hors d’oeuvres or (if you must) compare them to Spanish …
Fried sardine pitta and baked pomegranate salmon with kisir: Melek Erdal’s Kurdish recipes | Turkish food and drink
Kurdish food is a tapestry, much like Kurdish people. We absorb from and imprint on the spaces we inhabit. It is no coincidence that our …
Chill out! 10 tasty summer soups, from iced cucumber to coconut broth | Summer food and drink
August is a bad lunch month. By now, summer has stretched on for so long that repetition has begun to bite. If you are like …
Apricot and goat’s cheese, lamb with peach chutney: Yotam Ottolenghi’s stone fruit recipes | Summer food and drink
There’s something particularly special about cooking with stone fruit. Eaten raw, they can sometimes disappoint; catching an apricot or a peach at its absolute best …
How to make caponata – recipe | Italian food and drink
As Matthew Fort explains in his bookabout Sicily, Sweet Honey, Bitter Lemons: “Sicilian cooking embraces contrast, discord … the dishes are as bold and baroque …
Keralan curry and kulfi: Sonal Ved’s Indian mango recipes | Indian food and drink
In Indian kitchens, mangoes are sacred. We wait all year for the ripest fruit, relishing it from seed to peel. You’ll find high praise for …
Coconut curry and peppered tofu: Riaz Phillips’ vegan Jamaican recipes | Caribbean food and drink
There’s lots I crave about Jamaican food, beyond jerk and curried meat. At cook shops, tucked away in shopping plazas, on highway roadsides and up …
Ravinder Bhogal’s recipes for cooking with peaches | Summer food and drink
If you luck out with a peach that is rosy, unblemished and ripe, sink your teeth into it and enjoy its sublime sweetness immediately, without …
‘Defrost and dump’: slow cooker recipes for the time-poor | Australian food and drink
One of our favourite ways of utilising our precious time is to make a meal fresh and prep a freezer bag of uncooked ingredients at …
Balinese or barbecue? Carl Clarke’s recipes for spicy chicken | Indonesian food and drink
These two dishes are perfect summer meals, whether cooked low and slow on a barbecue or in the oven. The spatchcocked chicken is very simple, …
‘A mirage at the top of a hill’: food, drink and adventure in Spain’s Vejer de la Frontera | Andalucia holidays
Just above the horizon, wild horses gallop around a white domed building while, within petting distance, a small donkey munches on wild poppies and purple …
Torta caprese and a coffee-free tiramisu: Kate and Giancarlo Caldesi’s Italian pudding recipes | Italian food and drink
Surrounded by lemon groves, almond and walnut trees, and with the Arab influence of the middle ages, the Amalfi coast boasts some of the best …
Number crunching: why ultra-processed foods have a calorie problem | Food & drink industry
A calorie is a calorie, right? Fixed and unchanging, like a gram, or a mile? Well … no, not necessarily. You see, what a straightforward …
Back home to Bali: banana leaf snapper with sambal and coconut salad – recipe | Indonesian food and drink
It’s five o’clock in the morning. My niang (grandmother) is bent over her mudbrick stove with a bamboo pole in her right hand, stoking the …
From soup with a pickle salad to deep-fried sesame-coated bites: Ravinder Bhogal’s cucumber recipes | Summer food and drink
Cool, crunchy and refreshing, cucumbers are like a breeze in a bowl. And there is a lot more to them beyond green salad and sandwiches. …
Georgina Hayden’s healthy budget dishes for kids – recipes | Vegetarian food and drink
Cooking for kids can be the biggest meal battleground: one day, they’ll eat something you have lovingly made with gusto, only to push it away …
Persimmons 101: from crunchy to jelly soft, the best ways to eat the misunderstood fruit | Australian food and drink
If ever a fruit seemed purpose-designed to lift spirits as we head into the darker, cooler months, it’s the persimmon. The jaunty pumpkin-coloured treat brings …
Butter-fried new potatoes and a crunchy dip: Ravinder Bhogal’s recipes for jersey royals | Spring food and drink
I’m a sucker for all potatoes, and jersey royals are currently flavour of the month. Their waxy interior and flimsy skins require little more than …
Recipes for Ramadan: Amina Elshafei’s spicy Korean seafood hotpot (haemultang) | Australian food and drink
Haemultang is a deliciously wholesome Korean soup, made from a combination of shellfish and fish, simmered in a spicy broth. Quite often it is cooked …