Taste test: the best chocolate Easter eggs and hot cross buns
The cook and author Melissa Hemsley tastes and rates Easter confections
Observer Food Monthly recipes & features
Fussy afternoon tea, tedious tasting menus: luxury is overrated
The revelation came to me one Sunday morning in bed – sometimes the good things in life simply aren’t that good
My idea of luxury? Proper mushy peas
Luxury food doesn’t have to be expensive, and expensive food isn’t always the definition of luxury
The best thing I ate in 2018
Tacos in Philadelphia, doughnuts in Cleethorpes, grilled lamb in Istanbul – cooks and writers including Prue Leith, Nathan Outlaw and Clare Smyth pick their culinary highlights
Here’s what a wine needs now – concrete
The forward-thinking winery’s vessel of choice is the concrete vat
It’s time to explore ‘suburban wine’
As land in France’s grand cru regions and the Napa Valley becomes eye-wateringly expensive, innovative winemakers are transforming previously unfashionable areas