Anything to do with eating and drinking!
Our 25 most popular food posts in 2025 covered everything from ingredients – Calabria’s spicy spreadable pork paste ‘nduja and Cambodia’s fermented fish paste prahok to essential spices, pantry essentials and Asian noodles – to cooking gear (rice cookers, knives, kitchen thermometers), technical tips (how to pickle, boil eggs, cook rice, make croutons, and bake … Read more
These are the best Christmas markets in Europe for sipping warming glühwein and munching on kartoffelpuffers (potato cakes), for shopping for artisanal Christmas gifts – from old-fashioned, handcrafted, wooden children’s toys to hand-knit woollen scarfs, mittens and beanies – for buying homemade edible souvenirs, such as Christmas cakes, biscuits, honey, and preserves, and for gawking … Read more
These 10 dishes to master to become a better home cook include essential egg dishes – an omelette to help you perfect your pan skills and eggs Benedict to fine-tune egg poaching techniques – savoury classics such as a roast chicken and a traditional stew, Asian favourites (a Thai curry and Chinese special fried rice), … Read more
Our Hanoi bia hoi guide gives you an introduction to Hanoi’s famous ‘fresh beer’, what bia hoi is, where to find the best bia hoi in Hanoi, how to drink bia hoi, and what to eat with bia hoi, so that you’ll be downing glasses of bia hoi like a local in no time. Bia … Read more
My huevos rancheros recipe makes a contemporary take on the traditional Mexican ranch eggs. With my modern reinterpretation of this classic Mexican breakfast eggs dish, you get a little velvety egg yolk, the chilli bite of the spicy salsa, a little crunch from the corn ‘powder’, and the robustness of the refried beans with each … Read more