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Shellfish pleasures: Mark Hix creates three delicious summery dishes from just one crab

Saturday, 12 June 2010

I've had my crab pots in the water down near Charmouth beach since last summer, and I can think of few things that give me greater pleasure and satisfaction than catching and cooking these delicious crustaceans.

Anthony Rose: 'Today the Cape wine industry is proudly back on its feet and it has outscored France for the first time ever'

Saturday, 12 June 2010

Over the next four weeks, South African footie fans will be blowing their vuvuzelas (stadium horns) loud and proud in a release of pent-up emotion.

Wine: Something for the weekend?

Saturday, 12 June 2010

Matilda Battersby: The ice cream man that just keeps on giving

Wednesday, 9 June 2010

The ice cream weather may have lapsed into a drizzly greyness, but a little rain won’t put off a man who has set himself the sticky mission of giving away half a million ice creams.

Pastry chef who takes le biscuit

Wednesday, 9 June 2010

French macaroons have captured British hearts – and it's all thanks to one visionary baker. Pierre Herm� shows Sophie Morris the secret of perfect patisserie

Knotweed souffl�, anyone?

Wednesday, 9 June 2010

Weeds are on the menu at some of Europe’s top restaurants – our most loathed garden invaders among them. So if you can’t beat them, eat them, says Anthea Gerrie

On the agenda: Caf� a Vin; The Flavour Thesaurus; Cath Kidston; Nick Lloyd Webber

Sunday, 6 June 2010

Biodynamic wines and the release of a flavour thesaurus kick off our food issue

The soft sell: Is Beverage No 7 a drink worth staying sober for?

Sunday, 6 June 2010

Fed up with binge-drinking Britain and realising that he was sinking into alcoholism, Peter Spanton set about creating the sort of soft drink he craved. The result: a sophisticated potion he calls Beverage No 7

High on the hog: How Percy Pig won the nation's hearts

Sunday, 6 June 2010

Percy Pig is worth more than £10m a year. Simmy Richman finds out how pigs really can fly (off the shelves).

Goodbye Mr Whippy: Tristan Welch shares the simple secrets of his family’s favourite ice-creams

Sunday, 6 June 2010

As chef-patron of London’s Launceston Place, TristanWelch creates dishes to get the critics drooling . But it’s making ice-cream at home that sees him really ‘go to town’.

Picnic paradise: Skye Gyngell's al-fresco feast

Sunday, 6 June 2010

Sunny days don't require too much blue-sky thinking: just pack up a picnic full of unfussy, easy-to-make food and head for the nearest shady tree. Skye Gyngell lays out her favourites for all to share...

Souped up: A whistle-stop tour of Tokyo's best ramen restaurants

Sunday, 6 June 2010

More than 80,000 restaurants are dedicated to this noodle broth in Japan, but what is a simple lunch staple for the locals is an obsession for Michael Booth.

Salad days: Mark Hix serves up summer sensations

Saturday, 5 June 2010

Forget the dismal cold-pasta combos you see in your average sandwich bar... Mark Hix creates summery, sophisticated alternatives.

Anthony Rose: 'The history of supermarkets selling fine wines is littered with bottles left unloved on the shelf

Saturday, 5 June 2010

Just as the tasting of the Bordeaux 2009 vintage switched to sales mode a couple of weeks back, Tesco was announcing the launch of a new Fine Wine range on tesco.com. This has nothing to do with Tesco's Finest range which, despite the name, is simply a clever way of marketing everyday wines. According to Tesco itself, it was to do with the return of consumer confidence, although it was notable that it coincided with Waitrose and Majestic's Bordeaux 2009 opening offers.

Wine: Something for the weekend?

Saturday, 5 June 2010

Camping cuisine: Meals on wheels

Wednesday, 2 June 2010

Camping needn't mean a menu of baked beans and marshmallows. With a tiny cooker and the freshest seafood, get a gourmet feast to go, says Tim Walker

Is this Asia's El Bulli?

Wednesday, 2 June 2010

Yoshihiro Narisawa's Tokyo restaurant has just been voted the best in the East – and conventional it is not. David McNeill meets a chef with a taste for soil, charcoal and bark

The world's weirdest dining experiences

Tuesday, 1 June 2010

Once upon a time it was enough that restaurants served up mouth-watering delicacies. But as the number of restaurants grows, establishments are seeking ever more unusual ways to draw in the punters and differentiate themselves from the competition.

One burger, hold the carbon

Tuesday, 1 June 2010

Fast food is bad for us – and even worse for the planet. While chains are trying to make their meals ethical, they could do more, argues Sophie Morris

Flash, bang, dollop! Variations on a mayonnaise

Sunday, 30 May 2010

It takes no time to transform a basic mayo into aioli, rouille, sauce vert or even a spicy, paprika-infused sauce. What more do you need to give a lift to any number of light, summer dishes, asks Skye Gyngell

Anthony Rose: You can now put Spar's wines on your dinner table without attracting a derisory snort from your guests

Saturday, 29 May 2010

Laura Jewell likes the expression "does what it says on the tin". That's because, since she joined Spar as their wine buyer a year ago, she's been busy re-vamping the range with wines that do a job at the price. Spar, which opened for business in the UK in 1967, is possibly not the first wine port of call for Independent readers. Toilet rolls perhaps; in fact anything you might drop into the local store for on your way home. But wine?