Right place, long time: what are the secret ingredients that help a restaurant last for years?

The Sportsman, Melton’s and Prashad have thrived for two decades or longer. We meet the teams behind these evergreen favourites

Helen Rebanks: ‘Everyone in farming families knows how important the farmer’s wife is’

The author, artist and farmer’s wife tells how marmalade helped her find her literary voice – and why we can’t ignore the costs of processed foods

Easter egg taste test: will our baking queen love them to bits?

Benjamina Ebuehi tastes and rates 2024’s batch of high street chocolate treats

Poppy O’Toole’s secret ingredient – ’nduja

Fry eggs and cubed potatoes in this Italian pork paste for a spicy brunch, or toss vegetables in it for an umami hit

Richard Corrigan: ‘St Patrick’s is a get together day for humanity. We Irish know how to celebrate’

The chef on his childhood on a farm, why his restaurant’s oysters are the best, and how to do St Patrick’s Day properly

Omni Café, Whitley Bay: ‘The food is cracking’: restaurant review

Vietnamese-inspired food served with warmth and enthusiasm

I didn’t eat proper risotto till I was nearly 30. And now drought may take it off menus for ever

Just as Britain gets the hang of cooking risotto, its future has been thrown into doubt

The smell of frying onions is the scent of home – and a passport to a world of cooking

Writer Danny Wallace celebrates his favourite aroma, with help from Michel Roux, an award-winning hot dog stand owner and the executive vice-president of the US National Onion Association

No one likes my home cooking more than me (sorry, not sorry, son)

I do the family cooking. Or rather, I cook for me and they get to eat it

Paradise Food, Harrogate: ‘Precise and generous cookery’ – restaurant review

This isn’t a normal café in a garden centre, thank heavens – it’s halfway to Paradise

Suffield Arms, Norfolk: ‘a delicious experience’ – restaurant review

A chance to feast on Spanish food and soak up the fantasy of a louche Granada – all in a pub outside Norwich

Good Old Days, Reading: ‘Like finding a chef from the Ritz at your local caff’ – restaurant review

The Hong Kong expats of Reading have a Cantonese treasure house right on their doorstop, writes Jay Rayner

Five ways with chicken – recipes from Moro’s Sam and Sam Clark

Roast lemony wings, braised thighs with peas and sour cream, a whole bird with mushroom gravy – flavour-packed recipes for the whole family

Pamela Brunton’s secret ingredient: pumpkin seeds

Squeeze them for milk, toast them, pop them … they’re delicious and versatile, says the chef-owner of Inver

James Blunt: ‘Have I changed and grown up? No, not really’

Over lunch as he turns 50, the singer tells a host of wild celebrity tales, involving Ed Sheeran and Bear Grylls, and admits that, just sometimes, the criticism can sting