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Food Notebook: Lemon
The very best lemon products

My Day on a Plate: Amy Williams
Amy Williams, bob skeleton athlete, sticks to a no-frills diet during her training day.

World's strongest pint: Dutch brewer creates 80 proof beer
A Dutch brewer has created a 120 proof beer - or 60 per cent alcohol by volume - beating a Scottish company's bid to create the world's strongest brew.

Rose Prince's recipes for August: Tomato tart with basil oil
Thin and crisp, the buttery base of this easy-to-make tart shows off the flavour of sweet cooked tomato.

Rose Prince's recipes for August: Hazelnut meringue with blackberries and cream
If you can find fresh cobnuts to use in place of the hazelnuts, they make a delicate, nutty meringue to eat with summer fruit and cream.

Rose Prince's recipes for August: Bobby beans, courgette ribbons and fresh salty cheese
Bobby beans, a fatter, more textured type of string bean, do rather better when mixed with other things.

Rose Prince's recipes for August: Chicken in curried yogurt sauce with peach chutney and chapattis
I feel like a curry. Not a wintry, nutty type, but a light, citrussy yogurt-based curry, fragrant yet mild enough for the children to enjoy, with soft chapattis, and a fresh peach chutney on the side.

Rose Prince's recipes for August: Baked eggs with roasted sweet peppers and aubergines
Sweet summer favourites, the vegetables here are cooked together first, then baked with an egg whenever needed for lunch or supper.

Budgens criticised for selling grey squirrels for food
Budgens, the grocery chain, has been criticised by animal rights groups for selling grey squirrel meat.

Rose Prince's recipes for August: land of plenty
August brings a glut of rich, sun-ripened fruit and vegetables that need little work to bring out their flavour

Calorie counting spoils eating out
Eating a forkful of food without knowing its calorie content is enough to strike extreme fear into the hearts of some women, writes Bryony Gordon.

London restaurant guide: Ognisko Polish Club, London
This week, Matthew Norman visits the Ognisko Polish Club, London.

Wine Review: Bottles to match with sweet food
It's quite simple: sweet foods need sweet wines, says Susy Atkins.

London Restaurant Review: 101 Pimlico Road
There's not much to complain about at 101 Pimlico Road, says Zoe Williams. But then there's not much to love, either.

First, catch your fromage frais...
Waitrose is to open a cookery school. Further proof, says Lucy Cavendish, that we have become a nation obsessed by food.

Diana Henry's summer Sunday lunch: peas with baby onions and lettuce
This seems like tons of peas, but people seem to get through a lot. If you can't get small onions, just halve or quarter them before sautéing

Diana Henry's summer saturday dinner: poached peaches with rosé wine jelly
This dessert is elegant in its plainness - and far easier to make than you would think

Diana Henry's summer Sunday lunch: red berry tart
This is best assembled at the last minute, but you can have all the elements ready to go

Diana Henry's summer saturday dinner: griddled courgettes with mozzarella, lemon and basil
You might think you could make this whole dish in advance but it doesn't work. Instead, griddle the courgettes, leave them at room temperature and assemble the whole thing just before serving, otherwise the mozzarella loses its springy texture and the milky juices dilute the olive oil. You need good buffalo mozzarella. And this is the time to use your favourite extra-virgin oil

Diana Henry's summer Sunday lunch: roast lamb with sauce paloise
Roast lamb is easy - you just bung it in the oven - but you need to get your timings right. You can make the paloise - a mint-flavoured hollandaise - while the lamb is resting.

Diana Henry's summer saturday lunch: chilled beetroot soup
Among all the Mediterranean reds of summer, it's good to go for a splash of vermilion with cold beetroot soup. Followed by pink salmon and scarlet cherries, this lunch is good enough to paint.

Diana Henry's summer saturday lunch: fresh cherry cake
You can serve this after lunch or keep it for teatime. If a cake for pudding seems an effort too far you can just offer a big bowl of fresh, sweet cherries and let everyone dig in.

Diana Henry's summer saturday dinner: pollo alla diavola with green beans and Sicilian breadcrumbs
Pollo alla diavola - chilli-hot Italian chicken - is usually cooked on the barbecue or grilled, but roasting works well, too, and requires much less attention. Go as hot with the chilli as you dare. The breadcrumbs can be served with other vegetables as well, and in this case you could add chilli, capers or grated lemon

Diana Henry's summer saturday lunch: salmon with baby leeks, boiled eggs and caper dressing
You can, to make life easier, serve it at room temperature, but I like it warm. Despite being very easy, this dish never fails to impress. Perhaps it's the abundance of simple things. I sometimes serve a caper mayonnaise instead of a caper vinaigrette, or a Scandinavian-style dressing based on buttermilk and dill.