Cooking
Out of Africa
You can say what you like about European empires, but they improved African cooking
Robot recipes
Against cooking by algorithm
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
End of the Long Peace?
Our technological and institutional sophistication will not eliminate conflict
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
Stick ‘em up
Has the culture war been won?
Must-Miss TV
Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
The danger of naive humanitarianism
The rejection of force is complacent and unsustainable
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
