baking

The importance of bread as a symbol of Ukrainian resistance

12 July 2025 9:00 am

Two authors writing in response to the war use baking as a prism through which to view the country’s heritage and its defiance of Putin

The struggle to put bread on the table

27 February 2021 9:00 am

Wheat flour, and the bread made from it, has been a recurring cause of concern for the British for centuries,…

The staff of life

24 October 2020 9:00 am

In the seventh and final chapter of this small but lingeringly powerful book, the author reveals his motivation for writing…

Half baked

11 July 2020 9:00 am

Some cinemas have reopened, with the rest to follow by the end of the month, thankfully. But the big, hotly…

Prue Leith: Everyone’s waiting for me to make another Bake Off gaffe

16 December 2017 9:00 am

Edinburgh is a peach of a city, is it not? Last week, I walked up to the castle on a…

Beyond belief: Sam Otto as Jalal in Peter Kosminsky’s The State

Straight to hell

2 September 2017 9:00 am

No, The State (Channel 4) wasn’t a recruiting manual for the Islamic State, though I did feel uneasy about it…

‘Religieuses’ (from William and Suzue Curley’s Patisserie)

A baking June

21 June 2014 8:00 am

If I were the kind of person who invited people to come and have a bite to eat that very…

A choice of cookery books

23 November 2013 9:00 am

Nigel Slater’s books lead the field in cookery book design, but his latest, Eat: The Little Book of Fast Food…