My relationship with food was broken. Then I killed my own dinner
For years, eating was something to control, fear or regret. After I hunted my first deer, I started to see fat, hunger and my own body in a different lightI muffled my sobs with a pillow so my family couldn’t hear me from the adjacent room. I was 19…
‘A hefty umami punch’: the best (and worst) supermarket light soy sauce, tasted and rated
Which salty condiment nails that deep flavour profile, and which is saltier than the sea Our resident taster tries 10 soy sauces straight from the bottle• The best supermarket kimchiSoy sauce was created in China about 2,200 years ago, as a means to…
They’re delicious, popular and versatile – but how healthy are berries?
Experts say that if you’re eating any berry – strawberries, blackberries, currants, raspberries, blueberries – you are benefitingSprinkled on top of yoghurt, blended into smoothies or baked into crumbles, berries are among Americans’ favorite…
The simple secrets behind great ramen
You need five things: broth, flavour-giving tare, noodles, fat and toppings. And it’s the toppings that make it really special. Here are five versions, from a Toyko classic to a new Cardiff cult hitWatch our guide to the UK’s best ramen renegades in Feed…
Helen Goh’s recipe for flourless walnut, date and espresso cake | The sweet spot
With a deep, caramel richness and a bitter undertone, this cake is an excellent addition to your home baking rosterThere’s enough dark chocolate in this gluten-free cake to put it firmly in chocolate cake territory, but the hero flavour comes from the…
From breakfast pancakes to dinner sides and pudding: Alissa Timoshkina’s apple recipes
Fried in pancakes, braised with duck, pickled with a roast chicken or baked for pudding, apples are one of autumn’s star ingredientsFew ingredients are as familiar as apples, yet few carry such symbolic weight. Peaking just as the season’s begin to turn,…
A perry respectable alternative to wine – in praise of pear cider
Beyond Babycham there is a whole cottage industry of small-batch fine perries that are surprisingly perfect for pairing with food“They’re gorgeous little beasts,” Eddie Izzard said on the subject of pears in her mid-1990s show Definite Article, “but…
The best dishes to come out of a roasting tin
Baked pasta, gnocchi, chicken, meatballs and greens – all perfectly served straight from the oven• Sign up here for our weekly food newsletter, FeastAs I have mentioned before, we live directly above a takeaway pizzeria and tavola calda (a canteen-like…
Heart-meltingly good: the best cooking chocolate to buy
Those cookies and cakes will only be as tasty as the chocolate you use in their baking. Here are my favouritesOf course, you can bake with any sort of chocolate, and I do, but being Chocolate Correspondent means I have a lot of it spare, despite giving…
Gene-edited bananas that don’t go brown could hit UK supermarkets
Scientific breakthrough could reduce food waste and make it easier to add the fruit to prepackaged foodIt is the bane of every fruit bowl: sliced banana that turns brown before it has reached the table. But such woes could soon be a thing of the past,…