Food

Kisses in the dark

Choose ambience over aphrodisiacs for Valentine’s Day says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

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Primary sauces

Lisa Hilton savours a timeless French bistro in Pimlico that displays no timidity with the ladle

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Poignant power of cheap food

Would I read it if the subject wasn’t famous? One has to say yes, with chips and curry sauce

Books
The resentments and resillience of London’s market traders

For now, the Smithfield Christmas auction is still going ahead. We can’t stop everything, can we?

Artillery Row
Kitchen cabinet

Felipe Fernández-Armesto says MPs should pay their dues in the kitchen

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Recipes for conformity

Reject the joyless nursery arithmetic of cookbooks, says Felipe Fernández- Armesto

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Five go mad for fish and chips

Lisa Hilton enjoys a seaside hike, a bracing swim and lashings of warming tea in West Sussex

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A plague on lazarettos

Buildings born of plagues do have a life as something other than problematic ruins

Columns
Taste of the high country

Lisa Hilton savours sublime cookery packed with the flavours of Slovenia’s Julian Alps

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Simplicité sur l’herbe

The rules for the perfect picnic are simple, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

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