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Big fat Christmas cookbooks

19.10.09
When you're showing off in the kitchen it's now the size of your book that matters. Nick Curtis finds it difficult to lift and blend... more

I love Rose, I really do

18.09.09
The River Café’s Ruth Rogers talks about her plan to open another restaurant in London and Rose Gray’s new fight against cancer... more

The Queen through the ages is star of Channel4 autumn

26.08.09
Drama series about the life of the Queen is the highlight of Channel 4's autumn schedules... more

Best farm food shops in London

12.08.09
The latest wave of farm shops offers city slickers a taste of the country.... more

Tom Parker Bowles: Baked beans, mum and me

03.08.09
Tom Parker Bowles - food writer, son of the Duchess of Cornwall, stepson of Prince Charles - grew up, rather surprisingly, on Findus beef burgers... more

Bright future for royal parks allotments

30.07.09
Rosie Boycott joins Michel Roux Jnr, Tom Aikens and Atul Kochar to plant this year’s crops in the St James’s Park allotment... more

Hugh joins other chefs with a beef

12.06.09
Gordon Ramsay is not the only high-profile celebrity chef having a hard time of it. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, the old Etonian contemporary of David Cameron, is not exactly flush with cash.... more

Take to the road in a classic camper van

21.05.09
The classic VW van knocks other camping choices for six, says Chris Folley - who took his transport of delight to Dorset... more

Hedge fund star Odey makes a bet on ethical food market

15.05.09
Organic food has lost some of its healthy lustre in the recession. After a boom in the past decade, consumers have suddenly stopped spending so freely on ethically sourced, high-quality ingredients ... more

Christianity and Celebrity Big Brother for Channel 4

12.11.08
A series exploring alternative views on Christianity will spearhead Channel 4's winter season of programmes... more

Gordon and Jamie can keep swearing says C4 boss

12.11.08
The head of Channel 4 said he would not "rein in" celebrity chefs Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver over their use of the F word... more

Rose and Ruth revisited at River Café

15.10.08
The layout at The River Café may have changed after its six-month closure but it's the same faithful recipes at familiar prices on the menu.... more

DVDs of the week

09.09.08
Lebanese film Caramel has found success beyond its expected art-house circuit and Our Daily Bread is ideal for showing off your big fat-screen TV.... more

Tesco 'slave labour' row

26.06.08
Tesco is accused of exploiting workers who are paid an average 16p an hour... more

Never mind 'chicken chic', the Good Life is about hard times

28.05.08
Planting your own vegetables in small London gardens is a near pointless gesture - you need an allotment to produce enough to cut your shopping bill significantly - and keeping six chickens won't turn you into an agri-business... more

Top chefs launch attack on the ethical food 'fad'

10.04.08
Two leading London chefs have launched a scathing attack on the "ethical food" trend, claiming it is nothing more than a fad... more

Little and large celebrity couples turn out for £1,000-a-head banquet

14.03.08
Singers Mick Jagger and Jamie Cullum were left looking positively pint-sized last night as they arrived with their statuesque girlfriends at a charity banquet in London... more

£1,000 'beggars banquet' stars Mick Jagger

14.03.08
It was the charity banquet with a difference, a £1,000-ahead five-course meal made of ingredients all grown, plucked or fished from in and around London... more

Hyde Park nettles on £1,000 organic menu

22.02.08
It's the £1,000 dinner with a difference. Guests at a charity banquet in London next month can look forward to soup made from nettles picked from Hyde Park, and wild fennel plucked from the banks of the Regent's Canal in Hackney... more

'They've wasted our money'

09.01.08
Chicken farming isn't the only thing enraging Jamie Oliver ahead of his TV exposé of the industry.... more

Chefs to take lid off food industry horrors

21.11.07
Channel 4 have announced a season of new programmes spearheaded by a campaign to shake up the British food industry.... more

This is where I would spend my own money

10.10.07
From the finest buffalo mozzarella to fiery Sichuan hotpots and the freshest seafood, Fay Maschler names the final 25 of her top 50 restaurants.... more

The Wild Gourmet

12.09.07
Thomasina Miers has gone from novice cook to running London's hottest new restaurant and presenting a TV show in just two years.... more

How real food got really sexy

07.06.07
The first Whole Foods Market in Europe opened in London this week, adding to the tasty choice of organic stores across the capital's most fashionable areas.... more

Near the top of the tree

16.05.07
A reasonably priced bastion of enthusiasm and commitment to decent, honest cooking in tourist-trap Covent Garden, Great Queen Street is a delicious surprise. ... more

The best of British for Gordy's pub

04.04.07
The Narrow - Gordon Ramsay's first foray into pub food - puts the emphasis on traditional British recipes at very reasonable prices - for now.... more

The holy temple of eco-friendly food

29.01.07
Most fine-dining establishments in London now claim to be environmentally friendly but the bar has been set at a new height by Acorn House, a restaurant that aims to be 'carbon neutral'.... more

'The River Café's location is unique'

04.12.06
As a legal battle that threatened one of London's most iconic restaurants is resolved Ruth Rogers tells Lucy Cavendish why she can't imagine cooking anywhere else.... more

An unsung hero

22.11.06
After years of sterling work at the River Cafe, chef Theo Randall now has a place of his own. But the Park Lane venue is a surprising choice, writes Fay Maschler.... more

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