The Cors Country House, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire: hotel review

In a town rich with Dylan Thomas heritage, chef Nick Priestland is scaling back his highly-regarded restaurant to focus on B&B accommodation. Well, that was the plan

10 of the best autumn foodie trips in Europe: readers’ travel tips

Menus are bulging with seasonal produce at this time of year, often amid traditional food festivals. From Andalucía to Tuscany, via the Scottish Highlands, our tipsters forage for treats

Seoul Kimchi, Manchester: ‘The soup should be offered on prescription’ – restaurant review

This tiny restaurant is as uncomfortable as it gets, but the Korean cooking makes it all worthwhile, says Jay Rayner

The origins of clean eating

Why the fashion for restricted diets has been around longer than we might think

Politics and food: President Nixon in China, February 1972

Etiquette is the least of Tricky Dick’s worries at a state banquet in Shanghai, as he struggles with chopstick diplomacy

From margherita to the controversial Hawaiian: which British supermarket has the best pizza?

Restaurant critic Grace Dent’s rates high-street pizzas – from classic margheritas to the controversial Hawaiian

Lemn Sissay: ‘For the first time, I’m enjoying my life. I feel I have a purpose’

Life begins at 50 for the acclaimed poet, who’s overcome a traumatic childhood in care. Next up: more theatre and television projects

It’s elemental: does wine have a language problem?

When it comes to wine-tasting is the fashion for certain words, such as ‘minerality’, a help or a hindrance?

Akram Khan: ‘My father hated my waitering – how I’d prance around’

The dancer and choreographer on rehearsing in the kitchen, snacking in the studio and getting his head around broccoli

Darjeeling Express: the amateur cooks turned professional chefs

The kitchen at London’s Darjeeling Express is unlike any other. It’s home to a remarkable team of women who have never cooked professionally

Nadine Levy Redzepi: What do you cook for the world’s best chef?

Nadine Levy Redzepi on cooking as a child, collecting her grandma’s recipes and being married to Noma’s René Redzepi – plus six beautiful family recipes from her brilliant new cookbook

Da Maria: ‘The kind of place that keeps London human’ – restaurant review

This tiny outpost of Naples is the pride and joy of Notting Hill. Now comes the terrible news that it is under threat, writes Jay Rayner

Chutney is great with cheese and gives stews a boost but there’s only so much a man can take

Autumn might be the season of abundance, but there’s a limit to what you can do with daily deliveries of courgettes the size of police truncheons

The Straight and Narrow, London: ‘Jazz was born in places like this’ – restaurant review

The music creates a great atmosphere, writes Jay Rayner, but the food hits the right notes, too

The Pointer, Brill, Buckinghamshire: hotel review

This pub has long had a reputation for its excellent food – much of it grown on its own farm. Four lovely new rooms mean guests can now stay the night in the ‘ridiculously pretty’ village