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This week
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Let them eat cake
November 28: When experienced chef Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne discovered that two of her sons suffered from food intolerances, she was determined not to let it affect family meals - so she wrote her own cookery book |
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Give the poor turkey a break this Christmas
November 27, Allegra McEvedy: A haunch of venison is a beauty to behold, and unlikely as it seems, suits all the same accompaniments as turkey, ie roast potatoes, berry sauces , chestnuts and fabulous winter root veg. |
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Recipes
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Christmas dinner in a pie
November 30: In the last of our exclusive baking recipes, Martin Dewey, founder of Square Pie, explains how you can recreate their hearty festive pastry in your own kitchen |
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Falko Burkert's German stollen
November 29: We continue this week's home baking series with a traditional German stollen from the award-winning Edinburgh baker Falko Burkert |
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Flour Power City apple and almond tart
November 28: In the third of our home baking series, Matt Jones, of Flour Power City bakery in London's Borough market, gives the inside scoop on how to prepare their supreme spiced apple and almond tart |
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Butternut and polenta gnocchi al forno
November 28, Allegra McEvedy: I'm very happy with the way this turned out. It started as a little idea born from the fact that in Rome they often make gnocchi with polenta or semolina, as opposed to the more usual potato |
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St John's eccles cake
November 27: In the second of our week-long series of exclusive baking recipes, Fergus Henderson reveals the secrets behind the delicious eccles cakes served at the St John restaurants in London |
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Beer-battered fish
November 14, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall presents a third exclusive recipe from the new River Cottage Fish Book |
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Recent articles
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Meals on reels
November 14: From roast human to drugged gazpacho, the cinema has enjoyed a complex and intimate relationship with food. Feargus O'Sullivan picks his culinary highlights |
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British aisles
November 6: Is global snobbery about British food finally in decline? Our food export business is flourishing - and if we can sell cheese to France, chocolate to Belgium and curry to India, we must be doing something right ... Patrick Barkham reports. |
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A lobster dinner for just Ł4.99. So what's the catch?
November 6, Jon Henley: Just that the lobster comes from America. |
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A taste of paradise
November 2: Samuel and Samantha Clark, the couple behind the London restaurant Moro, grew everything from chard to chilli on their East End allotment. They tell Jon Henley about the joy of growing your own food. |
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Sugar and spice
October 31: Preparations for Diwali - the Indian festival of light next week - have begun. Vicky Frost visits Leicester's Golden Mile to sample the delicious treats of the annual five-day celebration.
Diwali desserts |
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The G2 weekly recipe: toffee apples and pears
October 31, Allegra McEvedy: What better treat for Halloween and Bonfire night could there be than toffee apples? |
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The question: What can you do with pumpkin innards?
October 29: Pumpkins are truly splendid beasts, says Allegra McEvedy. |
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McDonald's? Who needs it?
October 24: A new cookbook celebrates the national dishes of America's enemies. Gill Partington selects delicious recipes from countries where the burger is not king. |
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Perfect porridge
October 10: His porridge-making started as a healthy hobby ... but then Simon Humphreys ended up as the only English contender in the 14th world championship in Scotland. He ended up coming third, and now he's seriously obsessed. |
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Now you can see how clean that kitchen is
October 10, Andrew Shanahan on hygiene standards at celebrity restaurants. |
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Fabulous fungi
October 3: As the picking season arrives, Clare James learns how to cook with mushrooms. |
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Cooking by numbers
September 19: Knocking up a dish for one is very different from conjuring up a meal for 10, says Matthew Fort. But don't just double or halve the ingredients - go for a dish that suits the number of people round your table. |
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In praise of the humble pork pie
September 19, Michael Hann: These are halcyon days for lovers of pork pies. Not salad days; we've no time for salad. |
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Absolute Beginner
September 12: His kitchen repertoire consisted of a string of failed Yorkshire puddings and he had never skinned a tomato, let alone gutted a fish. It was time, Guy Browning decided, to take himself to a cookery school for novices ...
The G2 weekly recipe: Stuffed mackerel with red rice, brown shrimp and samphire salad |
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Danger to children from food and drink additives is exposed
September 6: Study links to hyperactivity and disruptive behaviour
ˇ Government body tells parents to check packaging labels
ˇ Angry reaction as decision on law change is passed to Europe |
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After 30 years of debate, fears over children's food confirmed
September 6: Campaigners demand tougher action after limited response from food standards agency to findings |
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'We've known for ages - diet really makes a difference'
September 6: The head of an inner city school says teachers have known for years that there is a link between additives and children's attentiveness in class. |
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Veal, without the cruelty
September 5: We import thousands of tonnes of veal each year. The calves are kept in close confinement in the dark and fed nothing but milk. But, says Allegra McEvedy British organic farmers are now producing the meat humanely, and the good news is it's just as tasty. |
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Preservation society
August 29: Nick and Judith Gifford knew little about cooking when they moved to France. But then they discovered a talent for jam-making. Now they supply the world's top chefs. Anita Chaudhuri pays them a visit. |
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Question time
August 16,: Angela Hartnett on the art of cooking, surviving Gordon Ramsay's kitchen and why Nigella-style finger-lickin' just isn't her bag. |
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Barbie world
August 8: Where do you stand on barbecues? A fun way to cook or a gastronomic disaster? Zoe Williams salutes charcoal cuisine while Tim Hayward says kitchen is best. |
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Why did M&S; sell me fishballs on their use-by date?
August 3: Anna Tims joins the sell-by date debate, comparing different supermarkets' policies. |
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The Cornish giant
Aug 1: He built a mini-empire of restaurants and shops in Padstow but then fell foul of some of the locals. Rick Stein tells Martin Skegg why he makes no apologies for his Cornish endeavours, and talks about his new passion - Mediterranean food. |
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Are we using too much olive oil?
July 25, Zoe Williams: Sales of extra-virgin olive oil hit a record £71m last year, which means it now accounts for more than 30% - the largest share - of the UK oil market. |
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No bananas, but lots of tomatoes
June 27: In these extracts from her new book about a year spent eating only local food, Barbara Kingsolver describes the agonies - and the unexpected joys. |
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Would you like to see the sherry list?
June 27: We don't usually think of drinking sherry with food but, thanks to chef Fergus Henderson, that's about to change. Vicky Frost joins him for a tasting. |
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Eat your greens
June 7: The government is keen to start telling us how different foods affect our carbon footprint. But it's not just about food miles, reports Julie Ferry. |
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That's the spirit!
June 6: There's more to gin than martinis and G&Ts.; New blends using surprising ingredients such as lavender, cucumber and tumeric are the current favourites of the cocktail cognoscenti. Norman Miller charts the drink's chequered history. |
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Always read the label ...
June 5: Food additives have once again been linked to hyperactivity in children, and a new study says they could damage cell DNA. So which of the E-numbers are causing the most concern, asks Rosalind Ryan. |
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Table for one
May 30: Once considered the preserve of travelling salesmen and those who had been stood up, eating out alone is now commonplace. In fact, says Julie Bindel, for committed foodies, solitary dining is a pleasure. |
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A bit of all white
May 24: Cauliflower sales have slumped, it was reported yesterday. But why are we shunning this fabulous vegetable? Here top chefs share their favourite recipes. |
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A feast at your fingertips
May 23: Thanks to the rise in specialist food websites, we need curse no more about having to source ingredients such as samphire or nettle jelly, says Andrew Shanahan. |
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Do sell-by dates matter?
May 23: Joanna Blythman on employees of Tesco and Sainsbury's caught extending the "use-by" dates on food. |
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Go easy on the vitamins
May 22: More and more of us are taking food supplements to 'balance' our diets. But are they doing us more harm than good? Lucy Atkins investigates. |
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The G2 weekly recipe
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| Allegra McEvedy |
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Allegra's veal recipes
September 5: Vitello tonnato | Involtini of spinach, mozzarella and grilled aubergine |
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| 10.10.07: Goat's cheese, sour cherry & hazelnut salad | 24.10.07: Affogato with lemon-macademia brittle | 03.10.07: Saturday breakfast (for two) | 19.09.07: Peach and raspberry cobbler | 08.08.07: Thai-ger prawn cocktail | 29.08.07: Gazpacho verde, lemon & ricotta croutons | 01.08.07: Courgette, broad bean and fresh pea quiche | 25.07.07: Turbot baked in salt with clams and leeks | 27.06.07: Strawberry, grappa and mascarpone fairy cakes | 06.06.07: Andalucían Artichokes | 30.05. 07: Roast lamb with baked haricot beans | 23.05.07: Lemon posset | 16.05.07: Goat's cheese, parmesan and chive souffle | 09.05.07: Original superfoods salad | 02.05.07: Scallops with asparagus | 18.04.07: Japanese carrot salad | 11.04.07: Bake-in-the-bag snapper with preserved lemon couscous | 04.04.07: Chilli-miso poached salmon with steamed greens | 28.03.07: Orange blossom, cashew and semolina cake | 21.03.07: Berber salad | 14.03.07: Parma ham, mozzarella and radicchio lasagne | 07.03.07: Fairtrade flourless brownies |
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| Marco Pierre White: Recipes from The Yew Tree |
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| 21.02.07: Baked egg custard | 31.01.07: Fish pie | 10.01.07: Roast pheasant ŕ la bourguignon | 03.01.06: Scrambled goose egg, fricassee of girolles à la Provençal | 13.12.06: Smoked haddock kedgeree | 01.11.06: Sardines on toast, fresh tomato sauce | 15.11.06: Crème brûlée à la vanille | 22.11.06: Velouté of mushrooms with chervil | 29.11.06: Sardines on toast, fresh tomato sauce | 06.12.06: Trifle "Wally Ladd" | 07.02.07: Herrings a la Baltique and Sour Cream Dressing | 17.01.07: Tarte Demoiselles Tatin | 08.11.06: Grilled rib-eye steak au poivre noir with oysters |
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Allegra McEvedy
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Organic food's first lady
May 2: Thirty-five years ago in Berkeley, California, Alice Waters set up a ground-breaking restaurant that has since become the template for eco-eateries all over the world - and made her a hero for G2 chef Allegra McEvedy. |
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Meet our new resident chef ...
March 7, Allegra McEvedy, who from today will write a weekly recipe for G2, describes her journey from the River Cafe in London, via Robert De Niro's New York restaurant, to her own chain of award-winning, super-healthy eateries. |
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Superfoods
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Superfoods: new potatoes
May 15: There are now more than 80 varieties of potatoes available in the UK, but particularly good this month are delicious Jersey Royals.
01.05.07: Asparagus
05.12.06: Cabbages |
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Food shopping
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Going global
May 16: Supermarkets have traditionally ignored the needs of ethnic-minority customers. Now, though, they are increasingly filling their shelves with juniper sausages, golabki and pickling mango. Humayun Hussain takes a trip down the aisles.
20.10.06, Laura Barton: Er, they want us to eat this stuff? |
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European food
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What is the Mediterranean diet?
May 16: The question is, what is the Mediterranean diet?
21.03.07, Bibi van der Zee: A taste for travel
04.08.06, Charlotte Higgins: Cooking with my hero |
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Vegetarianism
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Victory is sweet for vegetarians
May 22, Leo Benedictus: Mars has added humble pie to its range of snacks. After announcing at the beginning of the month that it would start putting animal rennet into its chocolate, the company announced that it would be taking the rennet out again. |
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Veggies beware!
May 15: Mars bars will soon be a no-go area for vegetarians - the manufacturers are to add rennet to the recipe. But what other unlikely products contain animal-derived ingredients? Laura Barton investigates.
20.10.06, Tristram Stuart: Happy hunting
29.09.06, Michael Hann: My week as a veggie |
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Food ethics
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The price of eggs
April 18: Supermarkets are starting to ban battery eggs from their shelves. But will the alternatives really mean happier hens? Hattie Ellis investigates.
22.11.06, Vicky Frost: Eat up and save the planet
08.09.06, Patrick Barkham: Alfalfa male takes on the corporation
18.08.06, Andrew Shanahan: A recipe for disaster |
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Health issues
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So you fancy chips with everything? Go ahead
January 11, Matthew Fort: A triumph of food technology at its finest, the oven chip, it seems, is low in fat enough to be classified as 'good' for us.
19.12.07, Lucy Atkins: Drink up your greens
30.11.06, Zoe Williams: Have yourself a chilli little Christmas
15.11.06, Kira Cochrane: A raw deal
06.10.06, Bibi van der Zee: Kebab, anyone?
06.10.06, Andrew Clark: Oranges are not the only fruit |
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Agriculture
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Seeds of discontent
April 19: Britain is losing its green fields, as the grass that once fattened cattle is replaced by oilseed rape. The bright yellow tide has upset lovers of traditional country views. But what about the effects we can't see? What is this chemical-hungry crop doing to the environment - and our health? Joanna Blythman investigates.
19.04.07, John Vidal: Rich pickings
21.02.07, Tim Hayward: Bon appetit - and now we're growing our own |
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Cookery tips
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When will we learn?
May 9: Despite our love for cookery, we amateurs, it seems, are still committing cardinal culinary sins. Andrew Shanahan asks some top chefs what makes them wince.
17.01.07, Tom Norrington-Davies: Let's take stock
03.01.07, Tim Hayward: The gadget graveyard
20.12.06: Top chefs' tips for Christmas dinner |
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Drink
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Pressed to impress
April 20: Once it was a drink loved only by down-and-outs and teenagers wanting to get drunk as quickly as possible. But now cider is undergoing an amazing sales revival. It's even become sophisticated, says Laura Barton.
08.11.06, Victoria Moore: Uncorked: the secret life of a sommelier
15.09.06, Victoria Moore: Last of the mojitos |
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Asian food
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Little boxes of love
April 11: Mimi Ito tenderly assembles her children's packed lunches each morning - then photographs them and posts the pictures on her blog. But it's not just about what they eat, as Alice Wignall discovers.
31.01.07, Hari Kunzru: You want wasabi with that? |
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The chapati's over
August 11: ... for Indian home cooking. More and more British Asians are spurning tradition and dishing up ready-made meals instead. But, as Mira Katbamna reports, we're not talking a chicken biryiani from Tesco ... |
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Neneh Cherry
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'It's ready when it's ready'
April 4: Best known for her Buffalo Stance, singer Neneh Cherry has teamed up with Andi Oliver to make a TV cookery show. It's really all about love and friendship, they tell Alice Wignall. |
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Books
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Eating through the ages
March 14: Boiled cow's udder, anyone? Or a ragout of pig's ear? Norman Miller leafs through chef Anton Mosimann's extraordinary library of antiquarian cookbooks.
06.12.06, Will Hodgkinson: 'I'll make it but I'm not eating it'
13.10.06, Andrew Shanahan: Take your chicken. Baste with wood varnish ... |
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Restaurants
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'We can fit you in after 10pm'
February 7: Tim Hayward on the worst night of the year to dine out, Valentine's.
11.01.07, Gaby Huddart: Dinner's off but you should still brace yourself for the bill
29.11.06, Andrew Shanahan: What in the world are we eating?
24.11.06, Alexander Chancellor: Maybe they really do want Gordon Ramsay, the British interloper, to fail. But I have my doubts
22.09.06, Laura Barton: Hunks of this, rumps of that ...
01.09.06, Mark Taylor: Britain's new foodie paradise |
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Rare foods
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'Once you have eaten them you get obsessed'
December 13: They are said to appear only where lightning meets thunder, we need dogs and pigs to sniff them out, and a single one recently sold for Ł85,000. Just what is it about truffles? Pascal Wyse goes on the hunt. |
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Seasonal food
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What's good now?
October 20: Crab apples
06.10.06: Lamb
25.08.06: Blackberries
18.08.06: Samphire
11.08.06: Lobster
14.07.06: Broad beans |
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Franz Ferdinand
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End of the road
August 25: In the last column charting his gastronomic adventures around the world with Franz Ferdinand, Alex Kapranos is appalled by British table manners in Prague.
04.08.06, Alex Kapranos: Soundbites |
