From omelettes to steak: when it comes to great cooking, there’s one “missing ingredient” everyone needs
I had an important revelation last week. During a (frankly arduous) quest to create the perfect chocolate biscuit, it became…
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“Just another item on our to-do list”: The popcorn maker’s Brexit business diary
In the first of our inside stories from British businesses, the founder of a popcorn manufacturer takes us through his…
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As Brexit looms, Brits may be about to lose out on European wines. But English wine is on a winning streak
The English have never been short of reasons to drink, what with our climate, our rulers and the isolation that…
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“Disastrous outcome”: Why experts think food shortages are coming in a no-deal Brexit
The government is secretly preparing for major disruption to imports and price increases on some foods.
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Cronuts, croiffles and cragels: the many forms of experimentation with the croissant
“An abomination,” snaps a Parisian friend when I mention the croiffle, the latest croissant hybrid to hit our Instagram feeds…
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In defence of Jamie Oliver
It’s hard to think of many businesses whose failure would attract the same level of vitriolic glee as Jamie Oliver’s…
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Like the university, a meal in Cambridge is never egalitarian: but one wine list comes close
I went to an excellent university, but the wine I consumed there was rarely of comparable quality. Cambridge’s venerable cellars…
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After bingeing on addiction memoirs, I still crave the untold drinking stories like my own
In my early twenties I went through a phase of bingeing on addiction memoirs. I finished one and had to…
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