Nigerian banquet
Beef suya | Goat suya | Boli | Sweetcorn | Barbecued Snapper in a Palm Oil marinade
Desert island dish
Each month we ask a chef to choose five ingredients they'd want if they were stranded on a remote island, and what they'd cook with them. Luckily the island has a wonderful herb
garden and its own olive grove. The rest is up to them No 3: Heston Blumenthal.
Stargazy pie
Jane Grigson was The Observer's distinguished food writer for many years. Here is a recipe that was first printed in this paper in March 1984.
Cornish bouillabaisse
Jane Grigson was The Observer's distinguished food writer for many years. Here is a recipe that was first printed in this paper in March 1984.
This month…
Small is beautiful when the sap's rising, glorious green vegetables in tiny mouth-watering shapes and sizes, gooseberry fool, Lancashire cheese and poached wild salmon for a real treat says Nigel Slater.
Spice boy
North of the tourist beaches of tongue-twisting Thiruvananthapurum, Nigel Slater discovers a fragrant tropical paradise of cardamom, cinnamon, coconut and nutmeg - but first, the white-knuckle hell of a southern Indian road journey.
This month
The greenest shoots, the tiniest Jerseys, the coolest mint, the broadest beans, the nippiest lobster, the shiniest mackerel, the gamiest duck. Oh and don't forget the rhubarb. Nigel Slater picks what's fresh for spring