Jane Pikett meets two one-woman food businesses to hear about lockdown business launches and happy collaborations For an inspiring story...
It’s apple season, and whether you’ve got a garden glut or you’re simply taken by the harvest at your local...
The contemporary new look at Bouchon is a fine setting for its classic food, discovers Dean Bailey The word ‘neighbourhood’, as attached to restaurants, is suddenly all the rage. A bit of a fad, rather like that silly craze for slates instead of plates and ‘deconstructed’ desserts instead of proper...
A winter warmer or a late summer indulgence… which will you choose? Blackberry & pear crumble Blackberry pavlova...
In the market for the latest kitchen and dining must-haves? Try these… Beans means… Our search for the best coffee...
As the vegetable garden yields its autumn treasures, the temperature drops and the nights draw in, this is the season for soup. Here, Jane Pikett serves up some favourites I have a love bordering on obsession with soup. Always have, since the Campbell’s condensed version, which I loved as a...
Executive head chef, Jesmond Dene House What do you have for breakfast? I’m pretty organised about breakfast; I tend to...
Jane Pikett shares some top tips for the best barbecues Most of us have done it… sausages cremated on the...
There was little to stir the Appetite team from its grumbling slumber during the long lockdown of winter 2020/21. Then came Khai Khai and, with it, long-idle culinary scribes began to awake from their long hibernation to whisper of something new, something wonderful, something very, very pleasing indeed. Khai Khai,...
Northumberland-based food writer Jane Lovett has a new book out packed with more than 100 stress-free one pan recipes. Here’s...
Owner, grate, Newcastle What do you have for breakfast? It’s a grab and go on the way to work with toast or a bacon sandwich, and I always have a massive mug of tea in the car. And your go-to guilty pleasure? One thing I try not to eat, but...




















