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It's el Bulli for you as best chef in the world publishes a family cookbook

29.09.11
He has won global fame as the king of molecular gastronomy, a chef of such exquisite skills that his three-Michelin-starred restaurant in Spain was fully booked a year in advance... more

Gordon Brown revenge, a dish best not served at all

15.07.11
Revenge, they say, is a dish best served cold. This is a Sicilian coinage and it means exacting vengeance in a cool and emotionally detached way, usually long after the original perceived slight has been committed. Being a Scot, Gordon Brown knows all about revenge... more

Truce is over as Waitrose hits Ocado

17.06.11
Waitrose and Ocado are poised to go head-to-head in smoked salmon and chablis 'van wars' across London for the first time this summer... more

Stars warned not to mock super-sewer by Thames bosses

01.06.11
Comedian Lee Hurst and Dame Helen Mirren received letters from Thames Water after they spoke out against plans for London's £3.6 billion super-sewer ... more

Paul Lambert hails 'colossal' Norwich after winning promotion to Premier League

03.05.11
Lambert is the first manager to clinch back-to-back promotions to the top flight since Joe Royle took Manchester City up 11 years ago... more

Nigella Lawson joins team to save football club

25.03.11
Nigella Lawson has bought a stake in Lewes Football Club whose ground is, aptly, named The Dripping Pan... more

How well do you remember 2010? Find out with the Quiz of the Year

24.12.10
It was the year of the Coalition, resurgent banker bonuses and Lady Gaga’s meat dress, but how well do you remember 2010? Try our quiz — compiled exclusively from Evening Standard front-page stories — and find out... more

Jamie Oliver's book hits a record million sales

22.12.10
Jamie Oliver's latest recipe book has sold more than a million copies in less than three months, making it the biggest-selling non-fiction work since records began... more

City Spy: Food ruling leaves sour taste

21.12.10
Relief in the food industry after the EU reneges on a proposal to ban the selling of food by numbers rather than weight... more

Happy Easter for Waitrose as Delia helps get recipe right

16.04.10
Britons buying the specialist ingredients used by Delia Smith in her recipes lead to a 303% surge in demand for seedless green grapes and a big jump in sales of free-range sausages and English cider for Waitrose... more

Peter Crouch crowned 'Funniest man in British sport'

11.03.10
England footballer topped poll of the best one liners and comedy football moments of all time... more

Delia Smith and Heston Blumenthal are first 'star faces' of Waitrose advertising campaign

03.03.10
Delia Smith and Heston Blumenthal are the unlikely double-act of a Waitrose advertising campaign... more

Sweet Dreams: best boutique bakers in London

18.02.10
The recession is having no effect on the boutique bakers catering for our love of cakes and other treats, as Victoria Stewart reports.... more

It's official, Arlene Phillips is 'a lady'

15.02.10
Dance guru Arlene Phillips joined artist Tracey Emin, Barbara Windsor, and the Queen on a list honouring the "ladies of today". ... more

Best cookbooks of the year

26.11.09
Delia can do no wrong, particularly at Christmas, in Melanie McDonagh's eyes, but other imaginative and user-friendly food writers also find favour in her round-up... more

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

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

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

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

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

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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