OFM Awards 2017: Best Newcomer – Temper, Soho

A fire pit is the heart of this basement restaurant where Neil Rankin uses every scrap of the animals butchered on site

OFM Awards 2017: Young Chef of the Year – Tom Adams

He was only 22 when he co-founded Pitt Cue. Then came serious illness and the idea for a Cornish hideaway … with a lot of pigs

OFM Awards 2017: Best Food Personality – Rick Stein

After decades of books, restaurants and TV, Rick Stein isn’t slowing down. Next up for for the man voted Best Food Personality by OFM readers: a road trip to Mexico

How to cook like a pro. Step one: listen to the sound your food makes

Samin Nosrat could barely dice vegetables when she began working in Alice Waters’s Chez Panisse in California. Here, she reveals how learning to tune in to all of her senses changed everything

Meet the chef who’s debunking detox, diets and wellness

Anthony Warner – alias blogger turned author the Angry Chef – is on a mission to confront the ‘alternative facts’ surrounding nutritional fads and myths

Massimo Bottura and his global movement to feed the hungry

The Italian is one of the finest chefs in the world. But his greatest achievement is Food for Soul, his project to feed the poor and cut food waste, now about to open in London

Nathan Outlaw: Family-friendly recipes from the Michelin-starred chef

At his Port Isaac base, the chef discusses his far-flung restaurant empire and introduces foolproof dishes from his new Home Kitchen cookbook – including sticky toffee pudding and pork chops with broad beans

How hard is it to be a chef and a mother with young children?

Five professional cooks discuss how having kids changed their lives, in the kitchen and at home

Michelin men: Claude Bosi, Terence Conran and the return of Bibendum

Bibendum has been a London landmark for 30 years. Now, with its relaunch, it is up to chef Claude Bosi to bring the stars home

The 5th annual OFM 50: what we love about food in 2017

From a revered French chef to Singapore’s salted eggs, Monica Galetti’s new restaurant to Japanese vending machines: 50 of Observer Food Monthly’s favourite things (in no particular order)

Dan Barber’s long-term mission: to change food and farming for ever

America’s philosopher chef won over a president to his vision of sustainability. And now he’s bringing it to Britain

Anthony Bourdain: ‘I put aside my psychotic rage, after many years being awful to cooks’

The chef and author on encountering vichyssoise aged nine, practical jokes with his sous chef, and learning to take food less seriously

OFM Awards 2016 lifetime achievement: Pierre Koffmann

The Frenchman who taught generations of British chefs – including Marco Pierre White and Gordon Ramsay – wins Observer Food Monthly’s prestigious award