Jean-Georges at the Connaught, London: ‘The prices are stupid’ – restaurant review

Jean-Georges Vongerichten marries classic French and Asian flavours like no one else, writes Jay Rayner. But he hits you hard in the wallet

Fancy Crab, London: ‘A terrible waste of time’ – restaurant review

Red king crabs are seafood royalty, writes Jay Rayner. How can this place dedicated to consuming them get it all so horribly wrong?

Honesty box – or dishonesty box?

The light-fingered might take advantage of the honesty box, but for the creative cook it provides a roadside recipe challenge

Patience Gray: the wild, wild life of the cult food writer

On the centenary of her birth, we celebrate the blue-blooded rebel whose work, including Honey From a Weed, still influences the way we eat today

Frozen in Time: Brigitte Bardot on set in Mexico, February 1965

Bardot sits down to soup with director Louis Malle and the cast of Viva Maria!

Sommeliers are not the new rock stars of food and drink – they’re the new DJs

Obsessive about their subject, the talent of the new breed of master sommeliers lies in shaping the mood and lining up seamless food and wine matches

Cuban entrepreneurs take a bigger slice of profits thanks to reforms

Small enterprises, such as pizzerias in Havana, are springing up all over Cuba after 2011 licensing changes and relaxed US restrictions on tourism

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

Karen Elson: ‘At 16, I was living in Paris on Weetabix and pears’

The musician and model on fussy eating, late-night sake – and why her Nashville friends call her ‘Mama K’

Why is ketchup so delicious? Science answers the big food questions

What’s good, what’s bad and why – five food questions answered by consultant cardiologist Ali Khavandi and science writer Dara Mohammadi

Giorgio Locatelli: new cookbook, new TV show, new lease of life

With his first cookbook in six years and The Big Family Cooking Showdown on BBC2, Britain’s favourite Italian chef is finally getting over the explosion that shut Locanda Locatelli for months

Picture Fitzrovia, London: ‘Exceptionally good’ – restaurant review

Abandoning his usual well-planned ways, Jay Rayner takes a last-minute chance on dinner – and to his surprise hits the jackpot

Where’s the best place to find out who your real friends are? The kitchen

Time for my annual holiday dilemma: who can I bear to allow to cook alongside me?

Alabama pit stops: 5 of the best gas station barbecue joints

Alabama excels at the gas station barbecue – a sub-genre of one of the few truly American cuisines – which is tailor-made for lovers of the open road

Tenerife’s pop-up restaurants: tradition and taste – without the hype

In sheds, gardens and fields in the north of the island, wine growers run makeshift guachinches, selling their own wine and excellent local food