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Yotam Ottolenghi’s summer salad recipes | Food
I feel like a kid in a sweetshop at this time of year, rubbing my hands (or my tummy, more honestly) in anticipation of all …
How to make the perfect petits pois à la française – recipe | Food
Once the name of this dish is translated – “young peas in the French style” – it has a rather starchy sound to it, when, …
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 …
Going green: the best plant-based alternatives | Food
Embracing a diet of plant-based foods and fewer animal products is “healthy, sustainable, and good for both people and planet”, says the EAT-Lancet Commission on …
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. …
How to make bakewell tart – recipe | Food
In its Derbyshire homeland, they maintain that this gloriously nutty, sticky confection is a pudding. In truth – and as has been noted by others …
From fishy parcels to pineapple sorbet: Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for cooking with herbs | Food
It’s not a plot-spoiler to say that I love herbs. Great big bunches of them make me happy and hungry, and I can’t imagine cooking …
Cheese scones and fried scallops: Claire Thomson’s cauliflower snacks – recipes | Food
Cauliflower cheese scones These are best eaten just warm from the oven, spread with salted butter and a good blob of dijon mustard. Prep 15 …
Daphne Oz On Cooking Barefoot, TikTok and the Joys of Food & Fashion – Footwear News
When Daphne Oz isn’t cooking for her half million followers on TikTok, she’s busy jet-setting between Florida and New York to film her daytime cooking …
How to make the perfect pasta con le sarde – recipe | Food
“One of the greatest combinations of pasta and fish,” according to (the also great) Anna del Conte, the flavours of this Sicilian speciality reflect the …
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 …
How to make asparagus tart – recipe | Food
My favourite way to eat asparagus is steamed and drenched in melted butter, and with such a brief season, it’s hard to tire of that …
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: Maryam Hanifi’s Afghani chicken and orange rice (narange palow) | Food
Hosting dinner events was an essential part of our household when I was a young. I grew up in Kandahar city in a predominantly Pashtun …
The people making a difference: ‘I started a food bank – and it changed my life’ | Food
Tessa Lidstone remembers the last meals she cooked before she had to close her Bristol restaurant Box-E for the first lockdown. It was 14 March …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for baked sausages with rhubarb chutney, and apricot cheesecake | Food
Of all the things I am unable to grow – cauliflowers, lavender, globe artichokes (the list is longer than I would like) – rhubarb remains …
Carla Lalli Music’s recipes for pork chops, and kimchi rice and shrimps | Food
When cooking, I like to use inactive time to my advantage. These two recipes exemplify that approach perfectly: while the pork chops are absorbing their …