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  • Baked tomatoes with chickpeas and curry leaves.

    Nigel Slater recipes
    Salmon pie, pork in cider, fig tart – Nigel Slater’s one-pot dinners

    Marsala onion soup, baked tomatoes, upside-down fig tarts – comforting recipes for not-quite-spring
  • George Jones (left) and Nick Kelleher at IJ Mellis Cheesemonger, Morningside, Edinburgh.

    Right up your street: favourite local shops in the UK, chosen by chefs and food writers

    Fuchsia Dunlop, Dan Smith and Melissa Thompson tell us where they buy Chinese vegetables in London, heritage produce in Kent, and the best chicken you’ll ever eat
  • Baklava Cheesecake Georgina Hayden Greekish

    Sticky aubergine tart, sea bass with pistachio pesto, baklava cheesecake – Greekish recipes by Georgina Hayden

    Family restaurant, working for Jamie Oliver, starring in food TV – Georgina Hayden’s new cookbook, Greekish, is the result of her life’s work
    • Welcome to April’s Observer Food Monthly

    • My secret ingredient
      Gill Meller’s secret ingredient: smoked paprika

    • Lunch with...
      Simon Reeve: ‘At a Russian school the headmaster greeted us with a bottle of vodka. It wasn’t yet 9am’

  • Rachel Cooke

    Rachel Cooke on food
    I eagerly await the English asparagus season, from tender start to woody finish

    Rachel Cooke
    Until the 17th century, the vegetable was thought of as an ‘unimproved oddity’. But I could eat it morning, noon and night
  • Esme Young Life on a Plate Hair and makeup: Juliana Sergot using Lancôme & Tigi Observer Food Monthly OFM April 2024

    Life on a plate
    Esme Young: ‘I got Mini Cheddars in the green room when I started on Sewing Bee. Still do’

    The Great British Sewing Bee judge on her mother’s first edition Elizabeth David books, Greek food, and cramming people into her tiny flat for dinner
  • John Dory, Sandgate

    ‘We’re trying to make it more inclusive’: the rise of Britain’s new wine bars

    In the new wine bars springing up in cities, towns and even at the seaside, natural wines and small plates are in, sommeliers and snobbery are out
  • Jay Rayner

    Happy eater
    Food crazes make me want to roll my eyes. But first, pass me a crookie

    Jay Rayner
    History is littered with food fads, from pineapples to ‘poultry mania’ – and now, anything involving croissant dough
  • Lemon drizzle cake

    Lemon drizzle, pistachio and blood orange, egg-free date – Tarunima Sinha’s spring bakes

    Cleverly using just one size of cake tin for all her recipes, the baker and author has come up with a stunning array of beautiful cakes. Here, we pick five of our favourites from her new cookbook
  • Tom Kerridge, doffing his top hat in the style of a ringmaster

    Welcome to March’s Observer Food Monthly

  • Tom Kerridge
Easter 2024
Styling: Andie Redman
Observer Food Monthly
OFM March 2024

    Hats off! It’s Tom Kerridge’s Easter recipes: shoulder of lamb, onion tart and a hot cross bun bread and butter pudding

  • The Sportsman pub in Seasalter in Kent has had a Michelin star since 2008. Run by Head chef Shephen Harris, his brother Phil (outside the window) and co-chef Dan Flavell, the team have been together for many years including -chef's Mollie Francis, Russell Baker, Sam Jones, Tim Evan and Teresa Harris and front of house Lauren Harte, Catherine Ayres, Bella Croly, Paul Nolan and Lucy Clarke. Photograph by Amit Lennon Date: 29 Feb 2024

    Right place, long time: what are the secret ingredients that help a restaurant last for years?

  • OFM Lunch with Helen Rebanks
Observer Food Monthly
OFM March 2024

    Lunch with...
    Helen Rebanks: ‘Everyone in farming families knows how important the farmer’s wife is’

  • Easter egg taste test
    Easter egg taste test: will our baking queen love them to bits?

  • My secret ingredient
    Poppy O’Toole’s secret ingredient – ’nduja

  • Life on a plate
    Richard Corrigan: ‘St Patrick’s is a get together day for humanity. We Irish know how to celebrate’

  • Rachel Cooke

    Rachel Cooke on food
    I didn’t eat proper risotto till I was nearly 30. And now drought may take it off menus for ever

    Rachel Cooke
  • Danny Wallace Memoir illustration

    The smell of frying onions is the scent of home – and a passport to a world of cooking

    Danny Wallace
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