After an emotional week, Jay Rayner craved nourishment in every sense – and he found it thanks to Angela HartnettYork & Albany, 127-129 Parkway, London NW1 (020 7388 3344). Meal for two, including wine and service, £120I needed feeding. Not in the way I usually need feeding, which is simply to keep the grouchy, self-absorbed part [...]
Making pizza dough is a satisfying experience in itself. But the end result is even better…I like kneading dough, not in an anger-management kind of a way, but as a moment or two of relative peace and calm. Ten minutes spent deeply connected with my food, feeling the tight mix of flour, yeast, salt and [...]
Occidental Grand Papagayo is on Costa Rica’s northern Pacific Coast and is the destination for thousands of Air Canada Vacationers every year.
Eleven years ago, Idrissa Ouedraogo was called to pick up a government-issued identity card cementing his right to full citizenship in the country where he was born.
How to pickle a turnip and make a Black Forest gateau without booze. Plus the best things to spread on breadFollowing Alys Fowler’s splendid paean to the turnip, do you have a recipe for the pickle, especially how to ferment it?As it turns out, the world loves a pickled turnip, myself included. In fact, I made [...]
Classic British soups more than hold their own against any bouillabaisse, bisque, brodo or borschtWe invented fire. We roasted meats. We made pots. We cooked soup. That’s the story of culinary evolution in a nutshell. It hasn’t got much further, really, bar the odd soufflé, and why should it? For the apex of culinary achievement, [...]
Halloween and bonfire night aren’t occasions for subtle or pricey wines. What’s called for is a good old-fashioned, gutsy winter warmerIf you have children under the age of 10, it’s more than likely that you’ll spend a fair amount of time this week hanging around in the cold, trick or treating or letting off fireworks. [...]
Bees allow you to reconnect with nature, as well as producing delicious honey. And all in the city centreMy honeybees were out this morning in my back garden in Battersea. I saw them before I left for work, heading for the parks, railways sidings and gardens that dot this corner of south London. With [...]