Rick Stein’s favourite seafood recipes

To celebrate 40 years of his seafood restaurant, Rick Stein chooses eight of his favourite fish dishes especially for OFM - from a classic soup to steamed scallops

Give pease pudding a chance

Rachel Cooke: An uninspiring bucket list of world food recommends pasties and pies from the UK. It could have been more adventurous

Taste test: smoked fish

Mitch Tonks from award-winning restaurant The Seahorse in Dartmouth, tastes and rates high street fish

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 the Merchant’s Tavern

Deep-fried baby artichokes, cod fillet with peppers, courgettes and aubergine, and honey tart with roast apricots… Angela Hartnett and Neil Borthwick's recipes from their new restaurant the Merchant's Tavern, which opens 1 October

How to fillet a fish

Tim Hughes, chef-director of the Caprice group reveals the little tricks you need to know for a perfect fillet. Interview by Killian Fox