Food Features

EVEN before she became a successful solicitor Lydia McCaslin used to enjoy baking cakes for herself, family and friends.
So when she took time off for the birth of her first child, Joseph, a year...

JENNIFER Morrison has given hundreds of jars of her home-made jams and jellies as gifts to family and friends over the past three years.
And such has been their enthusiastic response she has deci...

COME on, piglets", trills Louisa Craigs. Seventeen black and white British saddlebacks lift their heads as one and gallop, ears flapping, across the paddock towards her, grunting an excited wel...

1: British Meat is produced to some of the highest welfare standards in the world; no growth-promoting hormones are allowed and any antibiotics are administered only under veterinary direction....

Does your child think fruit and vegetables only come out of a supermarket plastic bag?
Or that milk miraculously appears ready packaged in a four pint plastic bottle rather than from a cow?
...

WE in the North East are surrounded by countryside - yet its riches are often a mystery to us.
Seventy years after we were exhorted to dig for victory, many of us are oblivious of the wide range ...

OVER three quarters of people are not aware that bread and breakfast cereals are among the top salt-contributing foods in our diet, a new survey from the Foods Standard Agency has revealed.
Arou...

THE first thing most people do when they return home after the weekly grocery shop is rush around packing everything away.
Not James Byrne. More often than not the first thing the 26-year-old do...

HOT Chocolate claimed It Started With a Kiss.
For Catherine Furze it started two years ago with a romantic story of a different kind, Lionel Shriver‘s The Post Birthday World, a fictional ...

 THE sight of brown floodwater pouring into her riverside shop through the walls would have broken a less stoical character than chocolatier and cake maker Lynn Oxley.
The River Wansbeck was...

If you ever find yourself yearning for the old fashioned utensils granny had in her kitchen, then look no further than RE. The shop based in Corbridge, Northumberland, specialises in vintage magic, bu...

EAT SEASONAL PRODUCE:
When food is in season there is usually an abundance of supply and therefore seasonal produce is often on special offer. At the moment look for aubergines,...

A is for Acorn Dairy and their truly irresistible organic butter. Forget low-fat spreads and foreign imports, this is real butter as it should be. Deep yellow, creamy and full-flavour...

FOR the cook of the household, Christmas Day is a challenge.
With expectations high, and kitchens stretched to their limits, cooking the Christmas turkey and all the trimmings to perfection can ...

SOARING food prices could leave UK consumers forking out almost £6.50 for a loaf of bread and more than £18 for a pint of beer by 2030 unless urgent action is taken to avert dangerous clim...

Above: Lobster and mango salad Raval style...

Curry must be one of the most misunderstood -and miscooked - dishes of all time.
The most popular restaurant meal in Britain served with varying degrees of success in around 10,000 curry houses,...

AMBLE used to be a town in need of TLC, but all that is changing. One of the symbols of its new confidence is the luxury beauty business Natural Empathy.
Beverley Stuckey is a fine advertisement...

LAST weekend brought back happy childhood memories for Patrick Porteous.
On a visit home to see his parents he walked into the kitchen and there, standing on a stool and garbed in an over-sized ...

THOUSANDS of people dream of owning their own restaurant, but few succeed.
Being offered the chance to go into business with world-renowned chef Raymond Blanc, therefore, is a once-in-a-lifetime...

EVERYBODY likes to try to look their best, but expensive face creams and body lotions can take their toll on your wallet.
However, you can still treat yourself to a relaxing facial, some luxurio...