Food & Drink Archive

  • Jelly good show
    Sunday 20 May 2012

    Jelly is almost always associated with children's parties but it's too good to be exclusively for youngsters.

  • Bigging up the classics
    Sunday 20 May 2012

    A spirit of boundless optimism radiates from My Big Fat Greek Kitchen.

  • Bar stool
    Sunday 20 May 2012

    The Fox and Hounds

  • Wine, by Pete Stewart
    Sunday 20 May 2012

    I love jelly and ice cream as much as the next big kid but it does tend to hamper the wine matching process.

  • Crumbs of comfort
    Saturday 19 May 2012

    Cookery: confit farmed rabbit legs with parsley breadcrumbs.

  • An open letter to Nicola Sturgeon
    Saturday 19 May 2012

    Dear Health Secretary,

  • Leaf encounter
    Saturday 19 May 2012

    Restaurant review: Banana Leaf, Glasgow.

  • Tasting the McCartney food legacy
    Thursday 17 May 2012

    Paul McCartney's first-born is so self-effacing she prefers to slip into a room rather than have herself announced by a PR flunkey.

  • Scotland has to become a nation that enjoys food and knows how to cook it
    Monday 14 May 2012

    It's unusual to see the ever-ebullient Nick Nairn looking tired, but then he does have a cast-iron excuse.

  • Mexican hot pot
    Saturday 12 May 2012

    Cookery: pork and chilli verde.

  • A sweet little mystery
    Saturday 12 May 2012

    Ten years ago Blue Nun was relaunched in the UK under the banner "Britain's best-known wine, now in Britain's favourite grape".

  • Squat's the story
    Saturday 12 May 2012

    Restaurant review: Creedence, Glasgow.

  • Wine By Pete Stewart
    Sunday 6 May 2012

    With lighter, fresher, more summery flavours on our plates, we naturally turn to lighter styles of wine in our glasses.

  • Making things difficult
    Sunday 6 May 2012

    On the Great British Menu the other day there was yet another aspiring chef attempting yet another ultra-complicated dish.

  • Green around the gills
    Saturday 5 May 2012

    Cookery: olive oil pached fillet of salmon with peas and broad beans.

  • A good tradition
    Saturday 5 May 2012

    To make whisky you first have to make beer which is brewed in wash-backs – large vessels made of stainless steel or Oregon pine.

  • Pot of soup revolution
    Saturday 5 May 2012

    The Fife Diet may sound small but it's the largest local food project in Europe.

  • The fast and the curious
    Saturday 5 May 2012

    Restaurant review: Martha's, Glasgow.

  • Nice with rice
    Sunday 29 April 2012

    Pasta is now consumed in more homes and by more people than any other dish (curry, apparently, is almost neck and neck).

  • Wine By Pete Stewart
    Sunday 29 April 2012

    Using rabbit, chorizo and smoked paprika in a dish, as Geoff does this week, throws down a gauntlet.

  • A small price to pay
    Sunday 29 April 2012

    Price points.

  • Bar stool
    Sunday 29 April 2012

    TIGERLILY

  • Warm embrace
    Saturday 28 April 2012

    New season lamb is a popular dish on our restaurants' menus and we use various cuts such as the very tasty rump, taken from the top of the leg.

  • giving it welly
    Saturday 28 April 2012

    On his way to the field where he is to have his photograph taken Alex James pauses beside a fence and unzips his fly.

  • An intimate affair
    Saturday 28 April 2012

    Fast-forward to about 11pm tonight and I'll be leaping out of bed in a straight-from-the-Beano moment with cold cheese slices clinging to me, a joke-shop buzzer a-buzzing my bits, the word "ooyah" echoing through the house – and the sound of an eight-year-old laughing next door.

  • Spring time soup
    Sunday 22 April 2012

    Is there a sweeter combination than school holidays and sunshine?

  • Home and away
    Sunday 22 April 2012

    Kember & Jones

  • Bar stool
    Sunday 22 April 2012

    The Pot Still

  • Wine By Pete Stewart
    Sunday 22 April 2012

    As Geoff cycles off for a family picnic, it falls to me to recommend some tasty vino to go alongside his soup.

  • All things being equal
    Saturday 21 April 2012

    Cookery: pear, walnut and goats' cheese puff pastry tart.