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Wild things
Bursting with flavour, texture, aroma and ‘perkiness’ – what’s not to love about mushrooms? Six recipes to celebrate fantastic fungi...
Historic Heston Blumenthal: mock turtle soup in pictures
One of The Fat Duck’s signature – and rather extraordinary – recipes
Historic Heston
From Hash of Snails to Tipsy cake: exclusive recipes from the irrepressible Mr Blumenthal’s stunning new cookery book inspired by some very old – and rather extraordinary – dishes
Middle East feast
Bite-sized, streetside foodstuff is part of daily life all over the Middle East. Sally Butcher explores this ancient tradition, with delectable recipes from her new book ‘Snackistan’
The Paris baker: Chocolate coconut cake
A rich chocolate coconut cake that satisfies nostalgia for a childhood sweet-shop treat
Recipe: Thai mussels
Cooking mussels is a doddle. The care is in making sure they are spanking fresh – and yet not quite
Recipe: fig, goat’s cheese, pecan, honey and cornmeal tart
My Latin master spoke movingly of coming across figs in an oasis in, I think, Jordan or Palestine
The Paris baker: Victoria sponge and granola brownies
Traditional recipes for Victoria sponge and brownies, with a few elegant twists
Recipe: red mullet with citrus fruits and olive oil
Like so much alleged inventiveness, the dish was a combination of wilful and unconscious plagiarism
Recipe: baked greengages with apricot sauce
These two fruits work exceptionally well together here, each accentuating the flavour of the other
Recipe: ratatouille
There is an alchemy when these ingredients become more than the sum of their parts
Recipe: spaghetti with raw tomatoes
This is a holiday special, a very lazy dish, incredibly simple to make, and can be enjoyed at leisure
Recipe: pollo alla peperonata
A pork chop is excellent with peperonata, but even more traditional, and deeply Roman, is peperonata with chicken
Recipe: country pâté
Should you go to the bother of making this powerful pâté, you will have produced something inimitable and almost impossible to buy
Recipe: cod with potatoes and anchovy sauce
‘While these may be simple, clear flavours, the silky sauce gives this dish a sophisticated edge’
The history cook: Mary Berry’s Complete Television Cookbook
Long before her coronation as Britain’s ‘baking queen’, this no-nonsense cook had a prolific career on screen and in print
Global menu: China’s garden of England
In a corner of Kent, a farmer is growing a cornucopia of vegetables that wouldn’t look out of place in southern China. Fuchsia Dunlop reports
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Recipe: mackerel teriyaki with cucumber salad
‘Mackerel has achieved the sort of elevation on the social scale previously enjoyed by cod’