Opening presents in a car by the ocean with Dad; Mum making tostadas; watching Taxi Driver aged 10 with a chain-smoking Hungarian. Most people want sameness – I always have difference
Observer Food Monthly’s bumper review of high street cheese, chocolates, pies, cakes, puddings and more. And yes, our star reviewers shall go to the ball …
Traditional escarole pizza pie, fragrant slow-roast duck and boozy coffee sorbet: Italian flavours in a festive setting, from the River Café’s Joe Trivelli