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“ Food is everything. Food is life,” smiles Tom Parker-Bowles in his kitchen, “so even after 25 years of doing this I still wake up every day excited about what I’m going to eat.” We’re here to discus

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

Chef and author Sat Bains shares his tried and tested supermarket heroes

I am, generally, indiscriminate in my enthusiasm for vegetables. But not when it comes to potatoes. I don’t cook them often, so I never bothered growing them in my veg patch. They take up too much spa

My mother is very French. She has the strongest French accent on the planet! This gave me access to two different cultures – different poetry, literature, cooking… The French part of my family was cen

Our columnist loves to cook – although a Fanny Cradock gnocchi recipe is most certainly not on the menu