Whether you call it Christmas, Winterval or just ‘the holidays’, the period between late December and early January is cocoon time: a cessation of work and routine activities. It begins with tradition

THIS MONTH Christmas cake

York Castle Museum celebrates the city’s world-famous confectionery industries in a fascinating new exhibition

With trick-or-treaters on the horizon, here’s a pick ’n’ mix of brain-teasers

Dundee is famous for being the birthplace of the commercial development of marmalade in Scotland. The widely accepted story claims that in the 18th century, a Scottish grocer named James Keiller bough

Few things feel more British than downing tools between breakfast and lunch for a hot drink and something sweet, declares Jane Emily Phillips