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Living in the golden age of navel-gazing

4 May 2024 9:00 am

Every other book now seems to be a collection of sad, wry, funny reflections by some sad, wry, funny columnist – and Joel Golby’s Four Stars is among the best

No nonsense in the kitchen

25 November 2023 9:00 am

The forthright food columnist Rachel Cooke has little patience with faddy eaters, ‘meditative’ kitchen tasks or the craze for Portuguese custard tarts

What made the Two Fat Ladies great

20 April 2019 9:00 am

Mary Berry’s dependable The Aga Book — a book of the last century and part of my kitchen library —…