Foraging wild garlic is the way forward this spring.
Never mind the pre-summer "hungry gap" – a little wild garlic will fill the void
By Felicity Cloake - 14 May 10:11

It's a tough life being a foodie, but fear not - a sumptuous delicacy awaits in our still damp woodlands between April and June.

0 Comments
Cabbage.
Food is the one area in which I refuse to compromise for the sake of our bank balance
By Alice O'Keeffe - 09 May 10:18

Alice O'Keefe's "Squeezed Middle" column.

0 Comments
Grain v grape: Chinese rice wine being loaded on to boats in Hangzhou, eastern C
Not for all the wine in China
By Nina Caplan - 02 May 9:50

On the Chinese wine market.

1 Comment
Maternal nutrition can affect the child’s mind as well as its body.
Living off the fat of the land
By Michael Brooks - 02 May 7:30

Get mothers overeating during pregnancy and you stand to gain customers as soon as they are born.

0 Comments
New Statesman
After a morning wandering ’round the outside of Paris, lunch takes on a buffalo stance
By Will Self - 01 May 9:56

Real Meals: Buffalo Grill.

3 Comments
The frontage of a horsemeat butcher in Paris. Photograph: Getty Images
Why horse meat leaves a bad taste in the mouth
By Felicity Cloake - 25 April 7:49

Scoffing at neighbours who discovered that the value “beef burgers” they bought at the supermarket had horse in them won’t make life any better for those of us who are better off.

2 Comments
Photograph: Getty Images
Know your Bastardo from your blistering barnacles
By Nina Caplan - 27 March 18:51

Wine is not simple; its pleasures are as various as some of its components’ names.

4 Comments
Byron Burgers. Photograph: Byron
Isn’t it Byronic?
By Will Self - 26 March 16:04

An afternoon of overpriced burgers among the iPeople is not half bad.

6 Comments
Photograph: Getty Images
It doesn’t Costa lot to taste this mediocre – and luckily you can find one on every British street
By Will Self - 21 March 10:32

Will Self's "Real Meals" column.

19 Comments
New Statesman
Squeezed Middle: Getting caffeinated for cash
By Alice O'Keeffe - 21 March 10:20

Entering “babyccino” denial.

0 Comments
Cabbage and potatoes are Ireland's traditional staples. Photograph: Peter Bagi
Some corking alternatives to the Irish stew’n’mash
By Felicity Cloake - 20 March 10:13

Some traditions are just too sacred to mess with, though.

0 Comments
Photograph: Getty Images
The value of spending more time in the buff
By Nina Caplan - 07 March 12:53

Don't be afraid of the wine experts.

0 Comments
Last goodbye: customers enjoy their last meal at the Lorelei.
Losing Lorelei
By Yo Zushi - 07 March 6:10

Closing night at a Soho institution.

0 Comments
Photograph: Getty Images
I'll tell you what's wrong with Wetherspoon's - it's run by a man named Tim
By Will Self - 01 March 10:25

Will Self's "Real Meals" column.

0 Comments
An Aberdeenshire piggery
Meat market: the risks of our corrupt global food chain
By Colin Tudge - 28 February 10:49

Colin Tudge says we may discover that horse-flavoured “beefburgers” were a scam — but far more dangerous are the big health threats posed by intensive farming. He urges us to take matters into our hands.

0 Comments
Horsemeat: less about health than surprise. Photograph: Getty Images
The horsemeat scandal, alone amongst food scares, is not about health. Why the hell is it so huge?
By Martha Gill - 22 February 12:47

Martha Gill's Irrational Animals column.

0 Comments
Enjoying raclette in Switzerland.
In Switzerland, a hunt for melted cheese ends up more Ronald than raclette. . .
By Will Self - 14 February 12:46

Will Self's "Real Meals" column.

0 Comments
It's a pity to make rums taste like kids' drinks. Photograph: Braden Kowitz on F
Yo ho ho and a bottle of finest, oak-aged kill-devill
By Nina Caplan - 14 February 9:01

Nina Caplan's drink column.

0 Comments
New Statesman
Maker’s Mark to dilute due to shortage crisis
By Charlotte Simmonds - 12 February 18:02

As the bourbon’s popularity rises abroad, it waters down at home.

0 Comments
Bunty Oyster Man looks like the kind of man who beats his fish up
My need for oysters was so great that I nearly started a fight at the farmers’ market
By Nicholas Lezard - 07 February 12:23

Nicholas Lezard's "Down and Out" column.

0 Comments
A little girl licking a spoon after stirring the cake mixture.
You can’t teach your granny to use a sous-vide
By Felicity Cloake - 07 February 12:11

Sometimes the oldest kitchen inventions are the best.

0 Comments
The Spudulike experience had a refreshing honesty about it.
You say potato, I say spud, but the teenager sticks with pizza
By Will Self - 07 February 12:05

Will Self's "Real Meals" column.

0 Comments
Baguettes
Will Self's Real Meals: Petrol station chicken at Pain Quotidien
By Will Self - 24 January 9:30

The shtick at LPQ is a cod-rustic vibe cultivated with cold-hearted commercialism.

0 Comments
The sun sets over a vineyard in Spata, in the Nemee valley west of Athens
Drink the grapes of Greece for a taste of summer
By Nina Caplan - 24 January 9:30

The promise of heat.

0 Comments
Doughnuts, yes, but not as you know them
From pickles to popcorn shrimp, the tastes of 2013
By Felicity Cloake - 17 January 9:30

The food to look out for this year.

0 Comments
Dancers of the English National Ballet performing "The Nutcracker"
A trip to the ballet is a battle with boredom for the boys
By Nicholas Lezard - 17 January 9:30

Nicholas Lezard's "Down and Out" column.

0 Comments
New Statesman
Why don't we eat horse?
By Charlotte Simmonds - 16 January 17:47

The Italians do it. So why don’t we? Embrace the horsemeat with these simple recipes.

0 Comments
Northampton schoolboy William Albert Tuckley raises a dumb-bell
My exercise is limited to bottle-opening; it’s safer that way
By Nicholas Lezard - 03 January 7:35

Nicholas Lezard's "Down and Out in London" column.

0 Comments
Booze. Photo: Getty
Shake things up this Christmas: go pagan
By Nina Caplan - 23 December 9:08

Here's to a well-fortified Christmas.

0 Comments
You might just find yourself warming to the Spaghetti House
It’s farfalle quieter these days but this Spaghetti House once saw a pizza the action
By Will Self - 19 December 8:49

Will Self's "Real Meals" column.

0 Comments

Latest tweets