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Holding the perfect dinner party is a delicate art.
By Felicity Cloake - 06 June 10:35

Feeding people is still the supreme symbol of hospitality.

Vine art: an illustration from Les Ignorants, by Étienne Davodeau.
By Nina Caplan - 28 May 9:50

But surely the grape arrived first?

Photograph: Getty Images
By Felicity Cloake - 23 May 8:37

As our waistlines have grown, so has our collective prejudice against the overweight. How should we handle the obesity epidemic?

Foraging wild garlic is the way forward this spring.
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.

Grain v grape: Chinese rice wine being loaded on to boats in Hangzhou, eastern C
By Nina Caplan - 02 May 9:50

On the Chinese wine market.

Maternal nutrition can affect the child’s mind as well as its body.
By Michael Brooks - 02 May 7:30

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

The frontage of a horsemeat butcher in Paris. Photograph: Getty Images
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.

Photograph: Getty Images
By Nina Caplan - 27 March 18:51

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

Byron Burgers. Photograph: Byron
By Will Self - 26 March 16:04

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

New Statesman
By Alice O'Keeffe - 21 March 10:20

Entering “babyccino” denial.

Cabbage and potatoes are Ireland's traditional staples. Photograph: Peter Bagi
By Felicity Cloake - 20 March 10:13

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

Photograph: Getty Images
By Nina Caplan - 07 March 12:53

Don't be afraid of the wine experts.

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

Closing night at a Soho institution.

An Aberdeenshire piggery
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.

It's a pity to make rums taste like kids' drinks. Photograph: Braden Kowitz on F
By Nina Caplan - 14 February 9:01

Nina Caplan's drink column.

New Statesman
By Charlotte Simmonds - 12 February 18:02

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

A little girl licking a spoon after stirring the cake mixture.
By Felicity Cloake - 07 February 12:11

Sometimes the oldest kitchen inventions are the best.

The Spudulike experience had a refreshing honesty about it.
By Will Self - 07 February 12:05

Will Self's "Real Meals" column.

Baguettes
By Will Self - 24 January 9:30

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

The sun sets over a vineyard in Spata, in the Nemee valley west of Athens
By Nina Caplan - 24 January 9:30

The promise of heat.

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