“Oh bliss – you’ve got the first of the new seasons Seville orange marmalade already” chirps one of our lovely customers clutching a jar of traditional Seville orange in one hand and ginger marmalade in the other. [...]

The Chinese are gearing up to celebrate their most important annual festival – Chinese New Year. This year it falls on Monday 23rd January [...]

After Christmas I’ve got a whole stack of cook books with lots of tantalizing recipes to try– so much talent out there. I thought I’d share a list of [...]

This Christmas our Christmas present to all our extended family and many of our friends was ‘food from the farm’, a roll of homemade Jersey butter, a jam jar full of thick unctuous yoghurt with a nice layer of cream on top, a chunk of cheese, a [...]

Soneva Fushi in the Maldives – by Darina Allen For me the word ‘resort’ immediately rings alarm bells – not my kind of holiday. So when I was invited to cook a Slow Food dinner and give a cookery class in exchange for a few days holiday on a remote island resort in the Maldives [...]

Everyone is still in holiday mood this week, the kids are still off school, lots of opportunity to have fun, go for long walks, point to point… If you have the strength there are [...]

I love using up leftovers – turning odds and ends of this and that into something tasty and delicious. It’s a skill I learned early in life – Mummy could always [...]

‘Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat, please put a penny in the old [...]

More edible presents this week as promised. Several readers gave me a blow by blow account of making their Christmas cake; one complained that the top of her cake had got burnt, even though she had followed the recipe exactly [...]

Christmas this year is for many people something to be dreaded rather than looked forward to with the usual joy and anticipation. Everywhere one turns, there are a myriad of reminders of out of reach temptations. [...]