Pass the biscuits

Flat whites, flavourful rubs, buzzy cocktails… our appetite for coffee is evolving into a full-blown national obsession. Could it be about to replace tea as the UK’s favourite beverage? Let’s find out

There is a story that in the 17th century, Oliver Cromwell banned Eccles cakes on the grounds that they were too indulgent: all of that melting pastry and expensive dried fruit, sugar and spice deemed

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Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight

SHE’S the factory girl who stepped off the biscuit production line – for a job making cakes in her daughter’s back garden. But these days Eleanor Macdonald’s customers aren’t buying treats for their t

Halloween trick-or-treating is seemingly an excuse for kids to consume far too many sweets. But this modern tradition has a more virtuous – and tastier! – origin: soul cakes. The word ‘Halloween’ is a