Culinary

Cooking at Christmas can be daunting. If you’re catering for a crowd, there are likes, dislikes and allergies to navigate, as well as a perennial lack of time. This week’s recipe is a pudding you can make a...

Jeremy Lee’s royal mincemeat pye Serves 12 apples 500g, Cox or Braeburn preferred, peeled mincemeat 500g For the pastry good plain flour 250g, sifted unsalted butter 130g caster sugar 15g ice-cold water 3 tbsp egg yolk 1 For the frangipane unsalted butter 50g golden caster...

All over Germany there are traditional specialties on offer which you can only get during Advent. From classical treats like gingerbread all the way to home-baked Christmas cookies. Fresh from the oven For many families, baking...

ntil recently, I was suspicious of sweet potato fries as a concept: they seemed a misguided attempt to make chips healthy, with recipes that sang the praises of “non-starchy carbs” inevitably turning out sadly soggy results. Frankly, five-a-day...

Bitter is not a comfortable word – certainly not when it comes to food. It’s a flavour that has been bred out of our food. Despite the reappearance of negronis on cocktail menus and radicchio in...

Duck meat has always felt luxurious but, as I discovered at a recent Suffolk food festival, it needn’t be a luxury: you can buy duck legs for very little. Legs do take longer to cook than...

Hotdogs are Copenhagen’s street food. It was the first and the only one for many years. We have a nickname for a hotdog stand: “Restaurant Cold Feet”. Growing up in the 1970s, having a hotdog was...

Any excuse for a celebration, right? But as a person of little faith who has a general suspicion of moments of national glory, I don’t find it easy to rally behind the official reasons for a...

Ishy away from writing about game, because I am conscious that not everyone has access to it, but I am a huge fan. The animals have had happy, antibiotic-free lives, the flavours are rich and deep,...

Lovable and wonderfully retro, jello salad gets a joyful update with natural touches from fresh clementine juice and pomegranate seeds. Little bowls of red jiggly Jell-O were a common sight in our family’s refrigerator. Cool, bouncy,...