Natural Wine Killers: Ultimate Spring Salad and Koppitsch Homok 2022
The arrival of spring usually makes me a little loopy. It’s not only the warmer temperatures, the scent of blossoms on the air, the blessedly later sunsets. It’s also the new...
The arrival of spring usually makes me a little loopy. It’s not only the warmer temperatures, the scent of blossoms on the air, the blessedly later sunsets. It’s also the new...
I know it’s autumn, even without looking out the window or checking the forecast. My body knows, because almost to the day that the calendar ticked over to October 1, it...
There are few better teachers – or creative constraints – than necessity. The best of my cooking over the past year has arisen out of leftovers that urgently needed using:...
I’m not on TikTok (after spending much of the past decade donating large parcels of my brain to social media, I’m moved to defend the last stake of my sanity),...
If you hear Oktoberfest and think autumn – frothy litres flanked by hearty stews, falling leaves and thick jumpers – you could be forgiven. But the name of beer’s biggest...
The other evening – on an unseasonably cold and rainy August night – I found myself in Lao Café in Covent Garden, hovering over a bowl of sour pork hot...
At most weddings, the food is barely worth remembering – but at this one, there were empanadas. Beef empanadas, cheese empanadas, all dressed in a deliriously spicy orange sauce. I remember them,...
Normally, I don’t cook with beer – I like it more as an accompaniment than an ingredient – but Baja fish tacos are an exception to the rule. There’s nothing...
I am a creature of habit. When July comes, I know it’s time to eat as many tomatoes and peaches and nectarines as I can. The opposite of a squirrel hoarding...
I never realised what guava could be until I walked into a Brazilian supermarket. Until then, I knew guava mostly as a tasting note that was semi-frequently ascribed to hazy...
The season of no-cooking cooking has arrived at last. By which I mean: mangoes and stone fruit eating drippingly over the sink, or with granita or sorbet on the side....
You can never go wrong with a grilled cheese toastie, but there are definitely ways you can go even more right. A mix of several cheeses is a good start....
The practice of wine pairing has its particular diktats that most of us have seemed to internalise. “Red meat goes with red wine”, “only serve fish and white meat with...
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