No shopping list delights me more than the one I write when I’m planning to cook Persian food. Aubergines and walnuts, pomegranate seeds and rose …
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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 …
How to make focaccia – recipe | Food
I have vivid memories of my first encounters with focaccia. It popped up in British supermarkets in the late 1990s, oozing delicious olive oil and …
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 …
The people making a difference: the food market pioneer taking on the cost of living crisis | Life and style
‘I’m one of those people who says yes to things,” says Dorothy Bowker, sounding bewildered. I’ve just asked her why she decided to launch a …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for cucumber, avocado and basil tabbouleh, and honey panna cotta | Food
It might be jolly useful to have a summer salad up your sleeve that is both light enough for summer but also substantial – the …
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 …
Beyond the Balti Triangle: the best independent eateries in Birmingham | Street food
When Jack Brabant set up Digbeth Dining Club, an independent street-food venue on the edge of Birmingham city centre, 10 years ago, he and his …
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 …
Influencers are using food dye as fake lipstick — but is it safe?
TikTok is a dumping ground for endless beauty tips and hacks — and the latest one has raised some doubt over how safe it is. …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for roast red peppers with chickpeas, and lemon and raspberry squares | Food
The scorching red days of high summer mean plates of roasted scarlet peppers and basil, vermilion salads of tomatoes or watermelon and bowl after bowl …
Roast chicken, a yoghurt dip and crispy fritters: Yotam Ottolenghi’s tomato recipes | Food
The problem with tomatoes, at this time of the year, is that they can make me lazy. They’re just too good as they are: sliced, …
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 …
How to make sweet or savoury scones – recipe | Food
I was lucky enough to be invited to afternoon tea recently – a rare treat indeed – and was surprised to realise that, while the …
Civan Er’s recipes for a Turkish summer spread | Food
Chilled grilled aubergine soup Prep 10 minCook 35 minChill 2 hr+Serves 2 4 big aubergines (about 1kg)3 red romano peppers4 garlic cloves, peeled and crushedJuice …
Berries, meringue cakes and fools: Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for summer desserts | Food
Summer always feels a bit like playtime, which is why summer desserts – essentially an excuse to consume fruit and berries, booze and cream – …
Not just slushies! 10 tantalising and teetotal frozen drinks – from a strawberry snifter to a miami vice | Food
This weekend is poised to be deeply unpleasant for everyone in the UK. The heat will be blistering and relentless, and we will all be …
How to make the perfect meat-free spaghetti carbonara – recipe | Food
I must confess that recreating the very particular and porky pleasure of spaghetti carbonara without said pork was not a puzzle that had been keeping …