Clams, baked bream and torta caprese: recipes for an Italian summer feast

Jacob Kenedy’s menu, from aperitivo to pudding, is inspired by childhood holidays in a remote fishing village

Simon Hopkinson’s Easter feast

Celebrate the year’s best feast with Simon Hopkinson’s delicious recipes

Christmas spirit: sweet and fortified wines for festive afters

Port, Madeira, sherry, Muscat … dessert wines to sup with Christmas pudding, cheese or chocs

Taste Test: from lemon tart to tiramisu, the best supermarket puds

Cookery writer Georgina Hayden picks up her spoon to taste and rate high-street desserts

The great Christmas taste test 2017

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 …

I am sick of half-hearted desserts. Bring me a proper pudding

British restaurant desserts are in a death spiral. Who’s to blame?

U.P. at Dominique Ansel Kitchen: restaurant review

Seven courses of puddings from the man who brought us the Cronut? If only it had been as sweet as that sounds

OFM’s Christmas taste test 2015

High street turkeys, cheese, chocolates and cakes tasted and rated by top chefs for Observer Food Monthly

Christmas dessert recipes

Break with tradition and try Jeremy Lee’s rum-infused meringue cake, orange and lemon trifle and apple and mincemeat pie

French toast: the pudding of 2015?

Food critics are suddenly falling over themselves to praise the age-old snack/dessert. Why has it been thrust into the foodie-limelight – and where are the best places to try it?