Claire Ptak’s Californian Christmas recipes

Claire Ptak: A Christmas feast needn't just mean turkey with all the trimmings, so here are some tips from the west coast, including crab cakes, a spicy roast and pomegranate sugar pies

Recipes from Bruno Loubet’s new restaurant

From a corn and quinoa tamale to a chocolate brownie and pear tart, recipes from Bruno Loubet's new restaurant Grain Store. It's not vegetarian – but the veg gets equal star billing

Spring dessert recipes

Chocolate and salt caramel brownies with cherry and elderflower sauce, and rhubarb and custard, from the Ethicurean Cookbook

Silvena Rowe’s meze recipes

The author of a stunning new book on eastern Mediterranean food reveals no-one makes rice of baklava better than her. Except, maybe, her father