My latest discovery? You can eat the skin of a kiwifruit – and the benefits are myriad | Adrian Chiles
It turns out all that time spent peeling and paring was entirely wasted. Now I’m gobbling them like apples and putting the extra fibre to good useEvery day’s a school day, honestly. How on earth did I get to just short of my 60th birthday before finding…
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…
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…
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,…
‘Wonderful, full-fat indulgence’: the best (and worst) supermarket lemon cheesecake, tasted and rated
We sift through the sweet and the sour of the creamy citrus dessert, but which ones are overloaded with additives and which are more generous with the juice?• The best supermarket party cakesLemon cheesecake is traditionally made by whipping cream, cream…