What we’re eating & drinking this christmas

We’ve eaten and sipped our way through this year’s supermarket Christmas food and here are our favourites

Jolly frock-coated robins, majestic geese and arboreal partridges make for both literal and symbolic centrepieces at Christmas, says Matthew Dennison, as he revels in the cultural history of the season’s feathered fowl and game

Make this year’s celebration one to savour with our pick of the best Christmas buys, all highly rated by our expert food team

Our pick of the best mince pies, tipples, nibbles, treats and sarnies for the Xmas holidays

No need to slave over a hot stove with our pick of the best foodie buys

This time of year represents big business–and exhaustion–for the producers of festive fare, from crackers to hellebores to ham. Jane Wheatley visits six stalwarts who are flat out right now