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Sunday 27 May 2012

Five Best Malt Whiskies

by Jonathan Ray

I came to malt whisky late and have been making up for lost time ever since.

House Wine

Thursday, 30th September 2010

by Simon Hoggart

The days of cheap booze for MPs fuelling ‘well-refreshed’ speeches and fisticuffs in the Chamber are long gone. It’s a shame about the claret, says Simon Hoggart

Categories: Food and Drink , Wine

Self preservation Society

Thursday, 30th September 2010

by Alice Whitehead

Home food preservation is enjoying a renaissance. Alice Whitehead dips into the inventive world of DIY pickling, drying and candying

Categories: Food and Drink , Food preservation , Preservation

An A-Z of Scoff: M is for mealtimes

Thursday, 30th September 2010

by Hattie Ellis

Three square meals a day and no snacking: that used to be the advice for eating well.

Categories: Food and Drink , Nutrition

Death Match: Rage Against The Tagine

Thursday, 30th September 2010

by Jonny Goodall

My Gobelet d’Or award for the most pretentious wine event — some achievement — would have to go to a dinner I attended in Beaujolais that sought to match specific food and wine combinations with music by Mozart.

Categories: Dining , Food and Drink

The Accidental Miller

Thursday, 30th September 2010

by Paul Barnes

Mike Thurlow discovered his passion for singing stones after buying a watermill. Now, he tells Paul Barnes, he ships 200 parcels of flour a month

Categories: Flour , Food and Drink , Food feature , Milling

Back to Nature

Thursday, 30th September 2010

by Simon Woods

Simon Woods enters the world of natural wines, where the winemaker’s job is to do as little as possible and give free rein to some powerful, untamed flavours

Categories: Food and Drink , Natural Wines , Wine

Hot Comfort

Thursday, 30th September 2010

by Bibi van der Zee

Forget chilli con carne: Bibi Van Der Zee rediscovers the true taste of Mexico in London

Categories: Cuisine , Food and Drink , Mexico , Travel

An A-Z of Scoff: N is for nutritionism

Thursday, 30th September 2010

by Hattie Ellis

Supermarket shelves are a hotbed of nutritional claims, with labels boasting ‘added this’, ‘low that’ and ‘reduced the other’.

Categories: Food and Drink , Nutrition

Spectator Scoff Investigates: Running on Empty

Thursday, 30th September 2010

The government’s recent U-turn on scrapping free school milk for the under-fives was a rare piece of good news for the dairy industry, where profits and morale are at an all-time low. Kelly Falconer asks if ‘micro-dairies’ could be part of the solution

Categories: Dairy , Food and Drink , Micro-dairy

How to... infuse your own olive oil

Thursday, 30th September 2010

by Cathy Rogers

Assuming that it’s not a mould infusion you’re after, the crucial first step is sterilisation.

Categories: Food and Drink , How to , Infuse , Olive oil

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Queen of Burgundy

Friday, 16th March 2012

Mature consideration

Saturday, 18th February 2012

Days of claret and cricket

Saturday, 3rd March 2012

L is for Locavore

The term ‘locavore’ was coined in 2005 by a California chef, Jessica Prentice, to describe a person with a diet based on local food. Some set themselves the challenge of doing this exclusively, perhaps with the odd exception such as coffee and wine. The 1,000 members of the Fife Diet in Scotland have an 80:20 concept: 80 per cent local and 20 per cent fairtrade to cover such matters as bananas.