Browsing: food

My second ever chef job was at Glastonbury in 1997, which is now famous as the “Year of the Mud”. We sliced hundreds of kilos of…

Pav bhaji, or Indian spiced mash, is a home cook’s friend. It’s not fussy, and it will take most leftover vegetables and transform them into something…

Few things say “I love you” more than an unbidden cup of tea, but if you want to show true appreciation to the maternal figure in…

Gnocchi are a godsend – my children love them – but I was shocked by the quality on offer here. Of the products I tested, 80%…

Trader Joe’s has expanded a February recall of frozen fried rice products out of “an abundance of caution” because the meals may contain glass fragments, according…

A new Environmental Working Group report says companies used a regulatory loophole known as “generally recognized as safe” to introduce ingredients into food products without notifying…

The Calthorpe Arms on Gray’s Inn Road is a fairly atypical central London pub. With patterned red carpets, brass fittings, leather bar stools, a pool table…

I am emphatically not a dip person (see also: salad), but the first time I tried chard borani, a Persian dip made with chard and yoghurt,…

Food relationships are complex, nuanced, and can be difficult to define, as eating habits often develop from a combination of personal and sociocultural experiences, beliefs, and…

Bara brith, the traditional Welsh fruit loaf whose name means speckled bread, is, as Ben Mervis notes, not dissimilar to Yorkshire brack, Irish barmbrack and Scottish…