Food & Drink

Feel-Good Food

Be kind to yourself this New Year with the resolution to eat well and healthily.

Boxing Clever

Food writers tend to get very fed up with Christmas but compared with most people it's around the time of Wimbledon fortnight!

Pig Paradise

A young local couple are raising fifty traditional breed pigs in an ancient wood outside Groombridge. Mary Gwynn discovers why the Rare Breed Pig Company is worth rooting for Pig Paradise.

Cherry Ripe

Mary Gwynn celebrates the revival of a local favourite with recipes and serving ideas...

As editor of Vegetarian Good Food magazine over fifteen years ago, I was asked to write several cookery books, all unsurprisingly meat free. The most unexpected request, however, was for a barbecue book.

Sweet Treats

Nicki Trench's recipes for homemade, old-fashioned sweetie treats are perfect as presents or make them with the kids and keep them for yourselves ...

Part-time Vegetarian

Tortilla with spring greens and pimiento, Spiced chickpeas with spinach and Baked mushrooms with goat's cheese and pesto

Christmas Cheers

Delicious party food including easy sushi, artichoke in cheese pastry and pheasant and prune in Parma ham

Giant Puff Ball

Michael White ponders...THE GIANT PUFFBALL

Blackberries

Michael White ponders...The Black Berry

Hairy Bittercress

Michael White ponders...hairy bittercress

Wood Sorrel

Michael White ponders...Wood Sorrel

Stinging Nettles

Stinging nettles suffer from a bit of an image problem. They tend to be viewed as vicious botanical bullies and, as such, strimmed pulled and weed killed with great glee by all.