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Do-Ahead Dinners is out today! 15 Aug 2013 | 12:09 pm

Well bust my buttons if it isn’t pub. day for my new book, Do-Ahead Dinners! She has been a long time in the making but finally, wreathed in hardback, jammy with 150 recipes and beautiful photography,...

The Secret Larder at Vagabond N7 5 Aug 2013 | 03:58 pm

Our 6-month residency at Printers & Stationers has come to an end, and I’m delighted to tell you about our fantastic new venue. Vagabond is an uber-lovely coffee shop on the Holloway Road, just north ...

Sip it, picnic, cricket – the Laithwaite’s David Gower Selection 2 Aug 2013 | 03:11 pm

Every now and then a study “reveals” wine writers and experts to be full of sediment. They’re tricked into thinking a white wine is a red, into mistaking a first growth claret for a bottle of Buckfast...

Do-Ahead Dinners 21 Jul 2013 | 04:59 pm

I am about to give birth. I am about to give birth to a beautiful, shiny, shimmering new book. It’s called Do-Ahead Dinners and is all about cooking for friends and family without the stress by, as yo...

Recipe | Pig cheek chilli and bourbon sweet tea 6 Jul 2013 | 11:37 am

As you know, Thursday was American Independence Day. We drank bourbon sweet tea (recipe below) and devoured this take on a chilli con carne. You can buy chipotle chillies online, or buy chipotle chill...

Article | Olive oil ban 24 May 2013 | 01:55 pm

I wrote something for the Guardian about the now-reversed olive oil ban. Click here to read.

One day workshop at Leith’s School of Food & Wine 20 May 2013 | 04:30 pm

On 24th September I’ll be running a cookery workshop at Leith’s School of Food & Wine in west London. The kitchens are dead swanky and the recipes are all sumptuous, with a vague quail theme running t...

Competition: Lurpak Bake Club 14 May 2013 | 09:34 pm

There’s a fun little competition going on over at the Lurpak Bake Club. All you have to do is submit a tart recipe and you’re in with a chance of winning dinner for you and a friend cooked by me. Here...

Recipes: To tweak or not to tweak? 30 Apr 2013 | 05:35 pm

There are, as we all know, and broadly speaking, three kinds of cooks. There are the Deliacolytes who follow recipes so closely that they leave streaks of snot on the page. There are those – most of u...

How to eat cod sustainably 25 Apr 2013 | 01:04 pm

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece for the Guardian about the continuing and increasing headache that is eating fish these days. Going several better, the people over at Great British Chefs have ma...

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