Corrie’s Martin Platt leads a pongy invasion with a truck full of Smelly Apeth, How’s Your Father and Mouth Almighty. Rebecca Smithers is clearing room in her fridge
As ‘cheeky chappy’ Martin Platt he was the …

School Food Trust study contradicts Michael Gove’s claim that academies would champion government’s nutritional standards
Nine out of 10 academies are selling pupils junk food such as crisps, chocolate and cereal bars that are banned in …

A new report reveals that many academies are selling unhealthy food and drinks that are banned in other schools. Now doctors and campaigners are calling on the government to intervene
When Michael Gove wrote to Jamie …

From the familiar and comforting to the strange and exciting, there’s a whole world of sausages and sausage-lore out there
Rick Peters

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From mango monomania to the meatball menu, restaurants offering Hobson’s choice are appearing everywhere
It’s often said that less is more, and the restaurant industry has taken this literally with a flurry of single and dual …

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A simple, super supper
The recipe
Remove the head and tentacles from four medium-sized prepared squid and set aside. Slice the body sacks down one side and open them out flat. Score the surface of each …

CP Foods tables £2.5m bid for British frozen food firm – just one week after Chinese food giant swallows Weetabix
First they came for Weetabix. Now a second giant Asian corporation is eyeing our fish fingers.
A …

Government expected to suspend movement of cattle as fears mount over contaminated straw in region hit by nuclear crisis
Japan is poised to impose a ban on shipments of cattle from Fukushima prefecture – the scene …

Try this dish of Faves a la Catalana and it could become a favourite of yours, too
Antonio Miers was the drum player in Los Mustang. They were as big in Spain as the Beatles were …

In Spanish this recipe is called Almejas de Palamós. It comes from Palamós on the Catalan coast north of Barcelona
What would I say were the most important elements of Spanish cuisine? Pimentón? Chorizo? Saffron? Paella …

I think this is one of the best baked crab dishes anywhere; we still sell it in the Seafood Restaurant today some 15 years after I first discovered it on a holiday in St Jean …

Jacob Kenedy, chef-patron of the Bocca di Lupo restaurant in London makes peach granita
Alex Healey

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This granita is dramatic, delicate and complex to taste, but so easy to make
This is a great thing to do with less-than-perfect peaches, especially if they have dark red skins – but is one of …

A glut of good books on Spanish cuisines shows that British cooks are gaining a deeper understanding of the country’s ingredients and techniques
Recipes from Rick Stein’s Spain:• Fresh broad beans with black sausage and garlic …

Ginger and chocolate cookies are favourite among Guardian fans – while it’s Garibaldis for those who take the Daily Mail
Britons munched, dunked and dipped their way through 141 million packets of biscuits in the past …

Three fragrant bottles to enjoy on a summer’s evening
Taste the Difference Hawkes Bay Gimblett Gravels Syrah, New Zealand 2009 (£11.99, Sainsbury’s)
The Gimblett Gravels district is such a cultish region that this addition to Sainsbury’s own-label range …

The comedian on doctors’ diets and helping farmers in Malawi
I was a very small kid and at school lunches if you didn’t eat every morsel they’d make you sit up on stage until you had, …