Cooking
Italian lessons
On matching the sauce to the pasta
Feasts in far pavilions
The cricket tea season will soon be upon us
Monster Munch
It’s time to embrace a Galician classic
Move over Nigella, Nigel and Nadiya
The cookbook of the year was written by an elderly rogue and self-published
Cooking the books
Few writers do justice to food, but the exceptions are glorious, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
A foodie in his element
The author is evenhanded and accurate about the nouvelle cuisine movement, says Paul Levy
Recipes for conformity
Reject the joyless nursery arithmetic of cookbooks, says Felipe Fernández- Armesto
The local food revival
Felipe Fernández-Armesto rejoices in the pleasures and comforts of traditional food
The kindest of ghosts
A new history of childhood reading is a treasure
Ministry of Silly Thoughts
Wes Streeting made the grave error of consulting the British people
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Landscapes of allusion and illusion
On the architecture of recreation
Kim Leadbeater’s “safeguards” won’t keep people safe
The proposed legal hurdles are effectively useless
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
A captivating northern star
If Lise Davidsen sneezes, the opera world shuts down
The Royal British Legion’s day to forget
The “Pride poppy” demeans what should be a dignified occasion
The price of victory
Benjamin Netanyahu has won battles, but there is no foreseeable end to the war
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
Soporific Starmer
The Prime Minister appears to be making a virtue of his own dullness
