Recipes, reviews, farms and tables
"I want the person responsible for cooking my dinner to be a proper fatty, experienced in gluttony"
"Chefs all wear the preposterously tall toque blanche hat, but all of the pomp is lavishly lapped up"
"A daily menu arrives and makes a point of the kitchen’s Canadian-ness – what the Dickens is that I hear you cry?"
"Dutch food, though. Yes, quite. I'll give you a moment. Anything? If you said waffles, then you're wrong"
"Dinner starts proper with the world's oddest signature dish …"
"I’ve lived in Alba for over 15 years, and have found my happy place. I plant, I grow, I harvest, I cook"
"There's a shimmer in the wallpaper that speaks of a more familiar, outré Soho, than secret wartime plotting"
"Unrivalled as a host, her death a week afterwards was unreasonably and irrationally upsetting to me: I’d only known her for a few hours"
"The food writer Tom Parker Bowles loves such severe capsicum fire in his belly and self-inflicting pain, threatening his tongue and arsehole. I prefer to steer clear of such voluntary punishment"
"I started as I would continue: perched on a tiny plastic chair at 7am." Neil D.A. Stewart eats his way from Hanoi to Saigon, but skips the dog