Italian Food

Any aspiring cook knows that being skilled in the kitchen comes with some organizational challenges. You have to find a place for all the tools you accumulate over time, and figure out how to use all those highly specific ingredients that are now overflowing your cupboards. And then there are the recipes. My mother, for…

My shopping begins with fruit and vegetables. It always has done. Thoughts about what is in season, what is at its best at this moment, have always come before anything else. Rummaging through market stalls or surveying the long table at the greengrocer’s is the part of food shopping I enjoy most. It always seems…

What if, this January, you ignored all the voices telling you what you “should be” and instead focused on finding the healthful habits that feel right for *you*? With ReNew Year, the only thing we’re detoxing from is a restrictive mindset. Pick a goal—movement, food, self-care, or all three—and hit refresh. Get the Program It’s…

Garlicky Spinach and Chickpea Soup Active time:20 min Total time:50 min Servings:4 to 6 Active time:20 min Total time:50 min Servings:4 to 6 Comment I have a theory about soup recipes. They’re superfluous. That’s because soup is really just a formula. You fill in a few variables in different ways to end up with wildly…

India being a diverse country with a rich cultural heritage has no dearth of regional cuisines that offer unique tastes and flavours. South Indian food has been gaining popularity in recent decades across the country and even abroad due to not just its irresistible flavour but also its healthy ingredients. South Indian food includes cuisines…

What is it about cabbage that so many people are sniffy about? Even in winter when it’s at its very best, it seems to rank even lower than potatoes on the popularity scales. I ADORE cabbage in all its forms, despite the best efforts of my boarding school to put me off cabbage for life.…

There’s a National Cheese Lovers’ Day, but this food “holiday” shouldn’t be regulated to one fleeting day. Do we deserve cheese pulls galore every day — am I right, fellow cheese lovers? If you’re hoping to make this weekend a cheese extravaganza, why not try some of Salon Food’s stellar, uber-cheesy dishes? They’re all immensely, deliciously…

When the weather’s cold, there is nothing better than a steaming hot dish of home-cooked, comfort food. Seasonal Spuds shared three delicious British recipes for a tasty Sunday lunch, or dinner, with friends or family. Gluten-Free Dill & Spinach Sweet Potato Waffles Seasonal Spuds said: “Fluffy, golden waffles that make for a deliciously different brunch…

Delicious food needn’t be extravagant, and there are multiple ways to further your meals while still sticking to a budget. That can mean using up the tins and spices you already have in the house, rather than heading to the shops, or finding savvy swaps: tinned tuna instead of sardines, say, or chilli flakes instead…

A filling and healthy breakfast option that’s a moment to rustle up the night before, Bircher pots are named after their Swiss inventor, Dr Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner,” says Jack Monroe. “He first came up with the idea as part of a project to try to combat tuberculosis in the early 1900s, and originally intended it…