Category: Lifestyle

Champagne chickenWe created this recipe when we came home one night from touring and found we didn’t have any wine to make coq au vin. We did, however, have a bottle of bubbly and a tub of olives in the fridge. It was one of those fortuitous accidents that led to discovery and what, for […]

One of Spain’s best-known, beloved, and frequently abused, dishes has been given protected cultural status on the grounds that a proper paella celebrates the “art of unity and sharing”. On Tuesday, the government of Valencia – the region where paella originated – declared the dish an item of cultural significance, extolling its history and virtues […]

Name: Curry. Age: According to plant remains found at the bottom of ancient pots at archaeological sites in north-west India, about 4,500 years old. Appearance: It varies. What’s that supposed to mean? Curry is an umbrella term covering related culinary traditions developed over centuries, spreading across numerous continents and cultures. Yes, I read all that […]

“Ethically, wild game is a good choice for meat-eaters, because the animals live free and for much longer than farmed or managed animals,” says James Lowe, chef and co-founder of Lyle’s in London. “It also has an incredible flavour.” Game is a lean meat, and so, as David has found, can easily dry out. “Things […]

In Africa, when a baby is born, you dance. When you reach puberty, you dance.” Genny Jones grew up in Sierra Leone, and her childhood was full of “reasons to dance”. At 15 she moved to the UK and still, she says, “Dance was always at the back of my mind.” This year, shortly after […]

Which British monarchs would have survived their illness or wounding if today’s medical knowledge had existed then? (Bonus question: which monarchs would we have had but for illnesses that are now easily preventable?) Jane Shaw

On Thursday morning I sent my mother a WhatsApp message. “Entertaining discussion on Radio 4 about how it’s better being a grandmother than a mother,” I wrote. She didn’t reply. It is not easy being a son. On the Today programme, Amol Rajan and Sheila Hancock had been discussing a study by anthropologists in Atlanta, […]