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Queen of cookery Delia is made CBE

20.11.09
Queen of cookery, Delia Smith, honoured by Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace for her work teaching Britain kitchen basics... more

Heart attack kills TV chef Keith Floyd, aged 65

15.09.09
Latest: Keith Floyd died from a heart attack after dining on champagne, oysters and partridge at a 65th birthday lunch for his partner... more

BBC cooks up new series to celebrate 40 years of Delia

28.05.09
Delia Smith is to celebrate her 40-year career with a new cookery show, the BBC said... more

Ins and outs of property man on debt downer

14.04.09
As The Sunday Times gears up to produce its annual rich list, City Spy wonders if poorer list isn't a more appropriate title this year. ... more

Diners keep appetite for Carluccio’s

01.04.09
Italian eaterie and coffee chain Carluccio’s said that the stores are trading well despite the economic crunch... more

Carluccio takes a bite at young rivals 'driven by fame'

16.03.09
Celebrity chef Antonio Carluccio has accused younger rivals of being driven by fame instead of cooking... more

Nigella excess celebrity chefs are roasted for fat-filled recipes

11.03.09
Celebrity chefs including Nigella Lawson and Rick Stein are encouraging unhealthy eating, according to doctors and nutritionists... more

Credit crunch quiz

29.12.08
It was the year the economic bubble finally burst, but can you remember the financial events that made the headlines in 2008? Nick Curtis asks the questions... more

Jamie's filling more stockings than Nigella

19.12.08
Jamie Oliver is beating Nigella Lawson in the battle for the best-selling cookbook this Christmas, a retailer said... more

Shock departure: Delia Smith ends 12-year love affair with Norwich City

03.09.08
Delia Smith has stunned Norwich City by putting the club up for sale.... more

Delia's caught cheating again: the chef plans a sequel to the book that outraged food snobs

21.06.08
When Delia Smith suggested using packet frozen mash and tinned mince in her latest tome, How To Cheat At Cooking, she was lambasted by food snobs. ... more

Jamie Oliver to teach the poor how to cook 'the basics' in town where mums opposed his school dinners campaign

28.03.08
Jamie Oliver is on a mission to banish ready-meals in his next TV series. After shaming the Government into adopting his healthy school dinners and exposing the plight of intensively-reared chickens, he now hopes to revive home cooking. The series begins in Rotherham, where the chef faced opposition to his school dinners campaign from mothers who passed junk food to their children through the school railings... more

Delia Smith backlash as viewers object to frozen mash and tinned mince in new series

12.03.08
Her book is a bestseller and her television show grabbed an audience of 4.1million this week. But not everyone is happy with Delia Smith's return to TV after an absence of six years... more

Knives out: Delia Smith attacks 'foul-mouthed' Gordon Ramsay

03.03.08
Delia Smith has ticked off fellow TV chef Gordon Ramsay for being foul-mouthed. The cookery queen praised Jamie Oliver and, despite the fact that she dislikes watching people eat on TV, Nigella Lawson ... more

London's best Greek restaurants

27.02.08
With a Greek food festival, Carnival à la Grecque, in town this week, we celebrate London's best Hellenic restaurants.... more

Read my lips: my child's mush stays organic

26.02.08
How scientists love to tell us how stupid we are. This week, hot on the heels of Delia Smith's antiorganic comments, BBC2's Horizon is telling us that there is "little evidence" that non-organic foods are harmful. Well, Horizon, I don't care. ... more

No, Delia - life's not too short to stuff a mushroom

21.02.08
Sometimes I wonder how anyone finds the time to cook. There are days when it's difficult to grab a cup of soup at lunchtime, never mind rustle up a balanced meal at night. Yet for me cooking remains one of life's great grounding experiences - at the end of a hectic day a piece of grilled fish and a freshly boiled potato is always better than a soulless ready meal... more

TV cook Delia Smith lambasts 'celebrity chefs and their arrogant attitudes'

11.02.08
Delia Smith has launched an attack on celebrity chefs who she says are 'ridiculing' the public with fussy recipes and arrogant attitudes. The famously mild-mannered chef, who has become a favourite with housewives since her first book in 1971, has come under criticism from rival cooks such as Gary Rhodes for her 'over-simplistic' methods in the past... more

Nigella's recipes are a bit of a mouthful

11.09.07
Nigella Lawson's tempting creations may look easy to recreate, but more than five million adults cannot understand the recipes.... more

Ramsay's three-letter word: pub

22.08.06
Chef Gordon Ramsay has decided not to open any new restaurants but to focus instead on becoming a publican.... more

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