Tag: Observer Food Monthly recipes & features
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Taste test: the best chocolate Easter eggs and hot cross buns
The cook and author Melissa Hemsley tastes and rates Easter confections
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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
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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
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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
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Here’s what a wine needs now – concrete
The forward-thinking winery’s vessel of choice is the concrete vat
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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