Are you a fan or do you view pâté as meatloaf dressed for dinner? What are your favourite recipes or tips? In pictures: how to make pâté de campagne There’s no great dearth of terrines, no dreadful famine of chicken liver parfait and, as far as I’m aware, the meatpaste market still thrives in its own quiet way, but where oh where are the great slablike pâtés of my youth?
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How to make pâté
Have you ever had a spectacular meal in a setting to match, or is it true that the posher the unusual location is, the dodgier the dining will be?
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Location dining
It started out as a simple fishing trip in search of the elusive Basque trout, but this ancient corner of southwest France yielded up a far richer catch There’s an old Basque saying: “To know how to eat is to know enough.” Pierre Oteiza, a Basque farmer and artisan producer in the verdant Vallée des Aldudes, 65km southeast of Biarritz, would appear to embody this philosophy. He smiled, and swept his hand over the fruits of his labour – this is all you need to know, he seemed to be saying – “Bon appétit.” The table in his farm shop was laden with platters of sliced saucisson and jambon, blood sausage and chorizo. There were terrines of pig’s ear, tongue, and pots of pork pâté with baskets of freshly baked bread.
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A Basque banquet
Michael Tait finds out how to gather and prepare a feast of shellfish, wild garlic and edible seaweed
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Foraging for a Highland feast
Bompas and Parr make desserts you won’t find at a children’s birthday party and cocktails that are far too big for a glass Next Tuesday, to celebrate the first anniversary of its restored Elizabethan gardens, Kenilworth Castle is laying on a 300-dish, 320,000-calorie dessert course including gold-gilded jelly, nine varieties of custard tarts, 20
Simon Majumdar visits the spiritual home of the pork pie to assist in judging the British Pie Awards Simon Majumdar
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Pie-eyed in Melton Mowbray
Drinking more than four cups of coffee a day decreases the risk of developing certain cancers, a study suggests Do you feel slightly ashamed of your caffeine habit? Perhaps you needn’t feel so guilty about all those caffeine-fuelled mornings now that scientists have found further evidence that drinking coffee has health benefits – possibly protecting against certain cancers. Mia Hashibe of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, pooled data from nine case-control studies of head and neck cancers, which between them compared the coffee-drinking habits of 5,139 cases with that of 9,028 controls.
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The dish that fed postwar Japan has gone on to inspire manga books and films, and is now the country’s favourite comfort food • View gallery here It is a comfort food to which millions turn when in need of a carbohydrate fix. It has inspired popular manga titles and films, and expert reviews of closely guarded recipes adorn countless magazines, books and blogs. Michelin may have declared Tokyo the greatest food city on earth last year, but you won’t find a single étoile above the entrances to the thousands of restaurants serving Japan’s de facto national dish: ramen
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Japan’s super slurpy noodles
The Hungarian émigré transformed the UK’s restaurants, taught a generation about good eating – and couldn’t bring himself to retire Egon Ronay, the dapper Hungarian food critic who stamped his name indelibly on British culinary history, has died at the age of 94. Ronay died yesterday morning at his home near Yattendon, Berkshire, with his wife Barbara and two daughters by his side, having been ill for a number of weeks, according to his friend Nick Ross, the broadcaster
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Foodie king Egon Ronay dies at 94
The 94-year-old was best known for his Egon Ronay guides Egon Ronay, the Hungarian who transformed British eating habits and became the doyen of food critics with his restaurant reviews, has died aged 94.
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