Around britain by bitter

Beer comes in a bewilderment of varieties, produced on a giant scale or in tiny microbreweries. Such dominance isn’t bad for a drink supped for more than 10,000 years, writes Clare Hunt

O n a recent trip to Boston, I ...

First, the good news: in sustainability terms, booze is not particularly bad for the planet – what we eat is far more important and, at times, far more problematic. A 75g beef burger generates over 10

The French may have five mother sauces, but at breakfast two sauces rule. America’s tomato ketchup has a simple sweetness, but when it comes to complexity and depth of flavour, British brown sauce rul

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Henry Jeffreys on the emergence e of Essex as a winemaking county