Boxing Day: top 10 restaurants
You can overindulge on joy at Christmas so come Boxing Day Jasper Gerard prescribes a change of scene.

Father Goose: Chris Galvin on Christmas dinner
Best jointed before cooking: A master chef gives Xanthe Clay some paternal advice on cooking the perfect Christmas goose.

Chris Galvin's Christmas dinner recipes
A master chef tells you how to prepare a delicious salmon starter and a sumptuous roast goose.

Cheat's dinner party
A meal for six in an hour for less than £35.

Restaurant and bar owners to be banned from using tips as part of staff wages
Restaurant and bar owners are to be banned from using customers' tips to pay staff wages.

Harrods mince pies trounced in taste test by Aldi Netto and Mr Kipling
Aldi Netto and Mr Kipling mince pies have trounced their posher rivals from Harrods and Waitrose in a exhaustive blind tasting.

Middleclass wine drinkers targeted in 'meanspirited' campaign by church and police
Scheme by chief constables and bishops in Wales encourages people to sign an online pledge to stop before they drink too much and to carry a card demonstrating their commitment to moderation.

New Zealand sauvignon blancs: Blend ambition the Cloudy Bay way
Get it right and the sum equals more than the parts says the man responsible for one of the world's best sauvignon blancs.

Christmas food: Recipe of the week
Fonduta

Christmas food: A cheese is not just for Christmas
With loving care your truckles will not only reach adulthood but remain delicious.

Cost of Christmas lunch to be more expensive this year despite inflation falling
The cost of Christmas lunch this year will be more expensive than last year according to research despite supermarkets' highprofile price war and falling inflation.

Heston Blumenthal sherry recipes: Sherry trifle serves 4
Heston Blumenthal demonstrates how to cook up a meal using sherry in all three courses.

Heston Blumenthal sherry recipe: Mackerel Rillettes serves 4 as a starter
Heston Blumenthal demonstrates how to cook up a meal using sherry in all three courses.

Heston Blumenthal sherry recipe: Cheese on toast
Heston Blumenthal demonstrates how to cook up a meal using sherry in all three courses.

Heston Blumenthal: Good chemistry
Heston Blumenthal dislikes the scientist tag - and yet the science in his work is fairly well inescapable says Catalina Stogdon.

Tight times? Cheers for the dinner party
Tessa Boase finds a silver lining in the credit crunch cloud the rise of the Stag or Stay at Home Gourmet.

Chewits mandate leaves UBS with sweet taste
The maker of the confectionery brand Chewits could be put up for sale by its private equity owners after they appointed UBS to drum up interest in the business.

Xanthe Clay's countdown to Stirup Sunday
The scents of Christmas are wafting through the kitchen

Xanthe Clay: Iced cinnamon rolls canapes and cheese bisquits
The scents of Christmas are wafting through the kitchen

Xanthe Clay: Lemon thyme drizzle cake plumb compote
The scents of Christmas are wafting through the kitchen

Sybil Kapoor's icing instructions
The scents of Christmas are wafting through the kitchen

The new vegetarianism: introducing the flexitarian
A vegetarian diet plus a little meat and fish is good for your health and your pocket says Jessica Fellowes.

Top 50 websites for Christmas food
It's a cracker our gift of a guide to a stressfree festive feast.

Best Christmas websites 18: fresh foods
Fresh foods: turkeys geese beef game fish and shellfish

Best Christmas websites 919: deli food
Deli food: hams terrines smoked and cured fish and cheese

Best Christmas websites 2030: sweets
Sweets: mince pies Christmas puddings cakes and chocolate

Best Christmas websites 3150: onestop shops
Onestop shops: These are the shops that will take care of the whole thing deliver to your door or pack everything up for collection.

John Torode's Perfect Weekend
Family fun heads the menu for chef John Torode

Pint to pint: Review of the Greenwich Union
Adrian TierneyJones idles away in a pub with old style values.

Eating out at Northcote Manor in Lancashire
The boys at Harden's have a point says Jasper Gerard. There are sumptuous restaurants up north.

Recipes: cheat's dinner party
A meal for six in an hour for less than £35

Delia Smith's recipes: German frankfurters and hot potato salad with mustard dressing
A quick and easy dish from Delia ideal after a hard day's work.

Restaurant review: Murano London
Murano proves that women can and do cook to the highest level.

Cooking: the Great British 'fakeaway'
If you can't afford your favourite takeaway make your own.

British cooking: an offally good idea
Less money to spend on meat could mean a return to a wartime diet and we'd be all the better for it

The office lunch: tupperware is clearly the way forward
Becky Pugh finds the idea of leftover lunches appealing. Provided that there is something leftover that is.

Apples: a hedge fund of lasting value
Ancient varieties of apples are hidden in our hedgerows. Daniel Butler explains why.

Bingedrinkers to be taught how strong their beer is paid for by taxpayers
Taxpayers are to fund hundreds of thousands of pounds to teach bingedrinkers how strong their beer is and what effect it has.

Scientists crack the perfect Yorkshire pudding formula
Scientists have discovered the secret to the perfect Yorkshire Pudding is that is should rise to four inches in height.

£5000 spent on training caviar inspectors as Britain grinds towards recession
Nearly £5000 of tax payers' money has been spent on training caviar inspectors as the economy dips into recession.

Yorkshire pudding recipe

Richard Corrigan recipe: soda bread
Corrigan uses porridge oats to give his soda bread an authentic Irish texture. Covering the justbaked bread with a damp cloth stops it drying out so fast but even so this is best eaten the day it's made.

Richard Corrigan recipe: field mushrooms

Richard Corrigan recipe: baked red mullet

Skip's greasy spoon: just off the A281 miles from a Michelin
A layby cafe faces closure after a council warned it would revoke the license if it refuses to serve healthy food. Our restaurant critic Jasper Gerard sampled its cuisine.

EU to allow sale of 'odd' shaped fruit and vegetables
The European Commission will today scrap bureaucratic "marketing standards" that set precise measurements for the appearance weight and size of 26 types of fruit and vegetables including the Brussels sprout.

Sublime fruit of change
A ripe pear is an autumn treat so versatile that it will enhance every course.

Ten minutes to table recipe: smoky cheese fondue
Xanthe Clay cooks up something warm and comforting for winter.

Kitchen thinker
Bee Wilson on the baby blues.

British pub guide: pint to pint
Our guide to British pubs. This week: The Blue Peter Polperro Cornwall.

Restaurant reviews: best of the brunch
Belinda Richardson reviews visits three restaurants for brunch