Nigel Slater’s Christmas recipes, part two

I get more excited about Christmas in the kitchen with each passing year. I love the warm fruit and spice notes that float through the house; the rich, sweet flavours and the sheer abundance of it all. With classic recipes and once-a-year favourites, there is never a better time for the cook of the house to have a good time in the kitchen ...

Nigel Slater

Winter comfort food: Britain's top food writer knocks up a quick cassoulet, plus dishes for vegetarians.

Spice route

Food writer and photographer Alastair Hendy spent years travelling through Asia and the Far East finding recipes in extraordinary places - like chicken from a Burmese railway station

And now for my next tripe

Fergus Henderson has been feted from Smithfield to New York for his pigs' ears, ducks' hearts, trotters and bones. Rachel Cooke talks to him about wooing the world with the least attractive bits of animals - and his struggle with Parkinson's disease.

Mamma, just grilled a ham

For the best home cooking from old family recipes, head for Italy's trattorias says expert, Ursula Ferrigno.

Nigel Slater’s top 20 greatest summer hits

Nigel Slater One of the (many) joys of writing a cookery column is that the recipes can be 'of the moment', a fleeting idea, a temporary distraction from the home cooking we do week-in, week-out.

Good morning, Vietnam

Every morning, thousands of Hanoi citizens start the day with a steaming bowl of 'pho' - the street food at the heart of Vietnam's life and culinary renaissance after years of war and famine. Is this the best soup in the world?

Recipes

Nigel Slater's seasonal food special