Top 10 museum cafes and restaurants in Paris

Many of Paris’s museum cafes and restaurants now offer a lot more than coffee and cake. You can now expect great food and magnificent art – and some take their cuisine so seriously they merit a visit in their own right

The best Easter eggs, chocolate, hot cross buns and simnel cake – taste test

Handmade Harrods egg for £30 or Aldi’s fudge egg for £3? A tenner on biscuits or £1.25 for a fruit ring? Our comprehensive Easter treats test reveals when to shell out – and when to bag a cracking bargain

The truth about ‘miracle foods’ – from chia seeds to coconut oil

Cancer, diabetes, heart disease, dandruff… can these things really be cured, or at least prevented, by what we eat?

Veuve Clicquot: the effervescent widow who gave us the champagne lifestyle

Married in a cellar and given Dom Pérignon’s book by the priest, Madame Clicquot’s verve made her business a success

The truth about alcohol, from gin tears to champagne hangovers

Do different drinks have different effects on your mood, why do funny-coloured drinks make you more drunk and what causes the worse hangovers?

Kazakhstan to offer caviar baths as luxury tourist attraction

An ambitious multimillion-pound plan hopes to attract hordes of visitors to the east coast of the Caspian sea, but the hunt is on for investors to fund the project. EurasiaNet.org report