Christmas at home with Nigel Slater

Britain's best food writer dishes up a delicious turkey-free feast of roast pork with quinces and marsala, potato cakes and mincemeat crumble tart.

Nigel Slater rules the roast

Be it partridge with pumpkin, roast pork or a vegetarian Thai curry, the secret of Christmas is in the spicing.

This month…

Christmas is over - thank goodness - and we're now in winter proper. Time to fall back on those dried beans, and - if you're Nigel Slater - pop out to the market for fresh rhubarb, pineapple and a sea bass.

Christmas lunch a la south-west France

When Observer writer Sam Taylor moved his family to south-west France this year, he worried about all the things he'd miss, but watery turkey and smelly sprouts in drizzly, cold England were not on the list

10 cocktails for Christmas

They're fun, sexy, sassy and the fast track to a stunning hangover says their greatest fan, Sheryl Garratt.