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How can home cooks beat food waste?Thriftiness is the foundation of many great cuisines. It’s time to reconnect with these traditions and cook our way out of a frighteningly casual habit of wasting food -
When restaurant reviews go wrongEating nice food for a living sounds great, but there are downsides: from being unmasked to finding out, after you’ve published a glowing review, that there were rodents in the kitchen. The UK’s top critics spill the beans
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Silicone bagel moulds – holy snack heaven!These cones may resemble the wide-brimmed hat of a witchfinder general, but the bagels that result are a revelation -
Braised artichoke and butter beansAs artichokes pop up all over southern Italy, they are taking pride of place in chunky stews and steamy braises of potatoes and butter beans
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Anna Jones’s three-meal plan to get your 10-a-dayFruit and vegetables are easily incorporated into breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack, making your recommended 10-a-day a doddle
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Food in books: squashed fly biscuits from Murder Most UnladylikeAfter finishing Robin Stevens’s much loved children’s mystery, Kate Young makes some of the biscuits – so named for the raisins in them – eaten in the book
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Marina O'Loughlin on restaurantsMarina O'Loughlin on restaurantsJames Cochran EC3: ‘A great chef. But not yet a great restaurateur’ – restaurant review‘We’re made to perch at a not-very-congenial bar rather than the restaurant proper and left very much to our own devices. As Julia Roberts said in Pretty Woman: mistake, big mistake’
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Jay Rayner on restaurantsJay Rayner on restaurantsSkosh, York: restaurant reviewA restaurant that riffs brilliantly on the flavours of Japan and the Middle East… Better jump on board now, says Jay Rayner
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Felicity Cloake's perfect recipesFelicity Cloake's perfect recipesHow to cook the perfect boeuf bourguignonThere are no shortcuts for this giant of French classical cooking, but that doesn’t mean it’s not manageable. What cuts of beef are best? Can bacon replace salt pork? And how pricey a wine do you need to use?
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Nigel Slater recipesNigel Slater recipesNigel Slater’s oyster sauce chicken with citrus mint salad recipeOn a chilly night nothing warms you up like blisteringly hot Chinese-style chicken, served with a cooling side of herby salad, says Nigel Slater
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Wine: the smart way to make space for new bottlesIf you don’t replenish your stocks every now and then, you may be missing out on top deals as well as new vintages
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Wines for a family gatheringGill Meller, the former head chef of the much loved River Cottage, has just written his first cook book. It’s called Gather – a showcase of delicious meals to be enjoyed with friends and family. Here, David Williams chooses three wines to accompany some of the dishes
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Cheers! Pub saved by its customers rated best in the UKCamra’s top accolade goes to George & Dragon, in Hudswell, Yorkshire, which was rescued from bankruptcy
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Wine: how to beat post-Brexit price risesThe value of the pound may be falling, but there are still bargains to be had, if you know where to look
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Nadiya Hussain and Zoë Ball to co-host BBC's answer to Bake OffBig Family Cooking Showdown will rival Great British Bake Off when beloved baking show moves to Channel 4
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Spanish MPs give Junior MasterChef a roasting over late-night time slotSpain’s version of TV show accused of exacerbating problem of tired children in an already seriously underslept country
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Mary Berry says she was never asked to go with Bake Off to C4Celebrity cook says she didn’t have a meeting with broadcaster but had already decided to stay loyal to BBC
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Judging Great British Bake Off would be my dream, says Prue LeithPresenter and restaurateur said to be lined up as judge alongside Paul Hollywood when BBC show moves to Channel 4
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Cocktail o'clock in Bali: refreshment with a tropical twist at the Night Rooster barThe team behind Indonesia’s best restaurant, Locavore, in Ubud, have plenty to crow about having opened a cocktail bar with a menu piqued by local fruits, herbs and spices
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The Faroe Islands’ first Michelin-starred restaurantThe 17-course Nordic tasting menu at Koks has put the remote, windy islands on the culinary map
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Mash Inn, Radnage, Buckinghamshire: hotel reviewThis pub with rooms is surrounded by Michellin-starred restaurants, but the food here is good enough to rival the famous names – and at a fraction of the price
How to cook the perfect ... Boeuf bourguignon