Features

Can ordinary mortals ever experience the subtleties of flavour that the world's top chefs do?

Thursday, 16 June 2011

Rebecca Hardy puts her palate through its paces

We'll always have Kiev

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

It’s gone from elegant Sixties supper to supermarket staple, but in the right hands, the Chicken Kiev is still king. Tim Walker discovers how to make one that’s regal, not retro

Methane galore: Whisky and the green energy revolution

Monday, 13 June 2011

Whisky has a huge carbon footprint. But now a green energy revolution could be changing all that, says Jamie Merrill

Stephen Jones: 'Champagne is far more fun with cheap crisps than canapés'

Sunday, 12 June 2011

My earliest food memory... Eating ice-cream. I grew up in the Wirral in the mid-1960s and because my father was a refrigeration engineer, we had a freezer at home. We were the only family I knew who had one, and we'd always have a tub of ice-cream, which was the most unusual thing on the planet at the time.

Super nature: Skye Gyngell keeps it simple and seasonal

Sunday, 12 June 2011

Last weekend we did a workshop at the nursery with the Australian food writer Stephanie Alexander, whose new book is called Kitchen Garden Companion (Quadrille, £30). It was a fascinating few days, and it inspired me to put together these three simple dishes – perfect for this time of year, using ingredients that can be grown in any back garden.

Wines of the week: Dunico Masseria Pepe 2007; The Society's Exhibition Grüner Veltliner 2009; The Society's Corbières 2008

Sunday, 12 June 2011

Terry Kirby selects the best bottles to buy

Anthony Rose: 'Natural wine is a movement that has captured the spirit of the age'

Saturday, 11 June 2011

I am handed a glass of something murky by Isabelle Legeron MW (see her website, thatcrazyfrenchwoman.com, to find out more). "You're going to hate it," she smiles, like a nurse administering an antibiotic. In fact it's Akmenine, more a probiotic cross between scrumpy and the bitter aloes mum used to apply to my swollen thumb. It tastes OK; it has character. The 2008 Sebastien Riffault Sancerre is the first wine chosen by Alice Feiring, a natural wine evangelist (see her blog, The Feiring Line), to illustrate her talk at the inaugural natural wine fair last month in London's Borough Market.

Wine: Something for the weekend

Saturday, 11 June 2011

Another country: Mark Hix turns globetrotting gourmet

Saturday, 11 June 2011

I've been travelling around a bit recently – to places including Jersey, Ireland, New York, LA and Nice. The trips were a mixture of business and research, as well as cooking dinners for the likes of the jewellery designer Stephen Webster, who was opening his new shop on Rodeo Drive in LA. I also enjoyed cooking for Richard Rose, who was the highest bidder for a Selfridges auction in aid of the RNLI, and consequently won the cooking services of Bill Granger and myself at his house in the South of France. So I thought for this week I would introduce you to a few of the dishes I've created abroad recently. Cooking in a different country is always fun, as I love the challenge of just turning up and not knowing what to expect in terms of ingredients and facilities.

'What I drank on my holidays': The best wines to sip in the sun

Thursday, 9 June 2011

Sampling the local wines is one of the great pleasures of visiting the Mediterranean