Food and Drink

By Katie Wright Ella Mills celebrated a major milestone this year, marking 10 years since she posted the first recipe (spiced sweet potatoes with an avocado cream) on the blog she ...

Couscous with curried mushrooms and chickpeas 3 tablespoons of olive oil or use vegetable stock water for sautéing 1 large white onion, diced 3 large garlic cloves, finely chopped 2 inch chunk of ...

A couple hand rearing plants and turning the produce into jams and sauces is about to take things up a notch. ALIX NORMAN gets a taste for something spicy At 2.2 ...

By Prudence Wade, PA Make this dish for dinner one night, and enjoy the leftovers for the rest of the week. “This is such a simple recipe that I confess ...

Alaska is by far the coldest state in the US (right now, they’re lighting their fires and welcoming the first snowfall of the year!). But among the Lower 48, it’...

The driest non-polar desert in the world, the Atacama is vast and alien: endless red hills and dusty plains. Stretching 1,600 km along the Pacific coast of Chile, temperatures can rocket ...

Spice up your kitchen Chickpea‑Filled Filo Triangles This is one of the dishes that’s on my vegan menu for The Real Greek. It has proved to be a ...

By Prudence Wade For Olia Hercules, cooking is normally her therapy, her safe space – but she lost this when Russia invaded her native country, Ukraine. “For the first two months ...

This is the home of the hillbilly – a term that’s been around since the later 1800s. Today, the term carries derogatory overtones; but it’s still how citizens of ...

Simple cooking, vegan style Avocado and seed pudding 2 ripe avocados 2-3 cups of almond milk 1 tablespoon of ground flaxseeds 2 tablespoons of chia seeds 3 tablespoons of hemp seeds 1 teaspoon of green ...

By Lauren Taylor Think Sophie Ellis-Bextor and you probably start humming early-Noughties hit Murder On The Dancefloor, or remember the unadulterated joy she brought during lockdown with her live ‘kitchen ...

Washed by the waters of the Indian Ocean, ringed by white sand beaches, and dotted with tropical forest, Mahé is a little nirvana. As part of the Seychelles, Mahé belongs ...

Couscous Salad Serves 6–8 400g couscous 100g dried cranberries 2 red onions, finely chopped 10 spring onions, trimmed and finely sliced 8 preserved lemons, finely sliced 1 Bird’s eye chilli, finely chopped Juice of 3 ...

By Prudence Wade While most of us tend to get recipe inspiration from Instagram or cookbooks, Ixta Belfrage has another, more unusual outlet: her dreams. “I dream a lot about ...

There are British, US and Spanish Virgin Islands. And yes, they’re all named for a virgin – actually, for 11,000 virgins! This little archipelago in the Lesser Antilles was named by ...

Sandwiches are a kitchen staple and another gift to the world from the British. Our writers track down the best ones in Cyprus… Theo Panayides, Honest Bread Let’s be ...

By Lauren Taylor José Pizarro is feeling nostalgic. Often named the godfather of Spanish cooking, the hugely renowned chef has worked in Michelin star kitchens and opened no less than ...

Well into my teens, I thought Transylvania was fictitious, somewhere like Gotham or Hogwarts! Located in central Romania, and roughly 11 times bigger than Cyprus, the Transylvanian Plateau is almost completely ...

By Imy Brighty-Potts Despite placing fourth on the Great British Bake Off in 2014, Chetna Makan says she had never made bread before entering the tent. Of course, she knows her ...

By Prudence Wade Paul Hollywood didn’t set out to become a baker. Yes, his father was a baker, but he initially joined the industry through necessity. After going to ...

Home to 15.4 million people, Lagos is by far the most populous city in Africa. To put this into perspective, Cyprus’ most populous city is Nicosia, with roughly 200,000 residents; you’d ...

By Katie Wright After winning The X-Factor: Celebrity at the end of 2019 and landing a deal with Simon Cowell’s record label, Megan McKenna was on the brink of taking ...

Here in Prague, beer is cheaper than water. So it’s no wonder residents of the Czech Republic are the top consumers of beer in the world! At an average ...

By Prudence Wade Cooking outdoors might seem like a bit of a chore, when you start thinking about all the elaborate bits of kit you need to bring with you ...