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Food

  • OM Nigel Cauliflower Soup

    Nigel Slater recipes
    Cauliflower soup, and spiced blackberry puddings

    Say goodbye to summer with glorious dishes of cauliflower and late berries
  • ‘An unpretentious but beguiling little bistro’: Sam & Jak.Restaurant in Cirencester. 20th Sep 2023 Photographer Gareth Iwan Jones www.garethiwanjones.com

    Jay Rayner on restaurants
    Sam & Jak, Cirencester: ‘A story of skills and good taste’ – restaurant review

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    David Williams's wines of the week
    Marks & Spencer’s new Italian wines get top marks

  • Chaya Pugh's curried fried chicken with sweet mango pickle and celeriac slaw.

    Yotam Ottolenghi recipes
    From fried chicken to spicy dip: the test kitchen's favourite comfort food recipes

  • Meera Sodha's leftover rice congee.

    The new vegan
    Meera Sodha’s recipe for leftover rice congee

  • Tom Kerridge's cheese and branston pickle toastie with a glass of beer.

    Easy and cheesy
    Tom Kerridge’s recipe for his favourite cheese toastie

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Recipes

  • Ravneet Gill's chocolate fudge cake with custard.

    Ravneet Gill’s recipe for chocolate fudge cake with custard

    This fudge cake luxuriates in its own sauce as it bakes, and then gets doused again with hot custard
  • Felicity Cloake's cioppino

    How to make cioppino, or San Franciscan seafood stew – recipe

  • A woman makes a blueberry smoothie using a measuring cup.

    How many grams in a cup? How to convert US recipes to metric

    • Rachel Roddy’s recipe for chicken parmigiana

    • Jane Baxter’s budget recipes for American-style sweetcorn

    • Vishwesh Bhatt’s recipe for black-eyed pea griddle cakes

    • Nigel Slater’s 10 best recipes over the past 30 years

    • Molly Baz’s recipe for chicken piccata with sweetcorn, and marinated zucchini and mozzarella

    • Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for baked sweet potatoes with chipotle beans

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Restaurants

  • Grace Dent at Wagamama's in Westfield Stratford City: ‘Come as you are, come dishevelled, hungover, heartbroken, alone or with a rabble ... My order rarely deviates and my love never dwindles.’

    Grace Dent
    ‘A moment of dependable zen on a helter-skelter day’: Grace Dent on the joy of chain restaurants

  • Tendril, 5 Princes Street, London W1, for Jay Rayner's restaurant review, OM, 12/09/2023. Sophia Evans for The Observer

    Jay Rayner on restaurants
    Tendril, London: ‘A hotbed of vegetable-love’ – restaurant review

    • Sophie's Steakhouse, Chelsea, London

      Grace Dent on restaurants
      Sophie’s Steakhouse, London SW10: ‘Resolutely, safely unadventurous’ – restaurant review

    • Cadiz, Edinburgh

      Grace Dent on restaurants
      Cadiz, Edinburgh: ‘An oddly un-Spanish experience’ – restaurant review

    • Jay Rayner Observer Edinburgh Castle 01 09 2023 0580

      Jay Rayner on restaurants
      The Edinburgh Castle, Manchester: ‘A great place to eat’ – restaurant review

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Drink

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Food news

  • Mike Jack who broke the world record for the fastest time to eat 50 of the world’s hottest chilli peppers.

    Canadian breaks speed record for eating 50 Carolina reapers

  • Peas on toast.

    Grassy, herbal and sweet: How peas on toast is edging out avocados for brunch

    Household staple is now on the menu of a wide range of restaurants, and featured in recipe books by famous chefs
  • Pret a Manger’s ‘posh’ cheese and pickle sandwich

    Sandwich price shocks but meal deal costs rise less than average food inflation

    Pret a Manger’s ‘posh’ cheese and pickle sandwich grabbed headlines for its £7.15 price tag, but it’s not all gloom
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Food and environment

  • Minette Batters

    Minette Batters: ‘We need a success story for wild spaces but also for farmers and food’

  • A farmer pours milk into a milk can in a field with the sun setting

    Raw milk: the ultimate dairy product is back – but is it safe?

  • Tom Hunt’s lacto-fermented tomato harissa ketchup.

    Zero-waste cooking
    How to make a zingy ketchup from overripe tomatoes

  • A man in rubber fishing overalls and gloves holds a big salmon next to a net at a lake

    ‘Monstrous’ sea lice and jellyfish invasions blighting Scottish salmon farms

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