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  • Friday, 1 October, 2021
    FT SeriesAutumn Food & Drink Special
    Niklas Ekstedt is bringing ancient Nordic cooking techniques to London

    In deepest woodland, the chef teaches Alexander Gilmour how to cook with smoke and fire

  • Thursday, 12 August, 2021
    FT MagazineCricket
    Is it too late for me to be great at cricket?

    ‘I dreaded a catch. If the ball so much as trickled in my direction, I rose up like a startled hare and hit the deck’

  • Saturday, 3 April, 2021
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    How to raise a puppy and confuse dognappers

    ‘In the absence of any government or god worth following, she is a role model’

  • Tuesday, 1 December, 2020
    FT GlobetrotterThe best of London: at home
    Recipes for success: London restaurants’ best meal kits for lockdown and beyond

    From adding the finishing touches to haute cuisine to rolling your own sushi — bring the capital’s top fine-dining to your kitchen table

  • Friday, 27 November, 2020
    The 2020 festive food and drink guide
    All I want for Christmas . . . 

    London’s finest chefs, mixologists and restaurateurs on the ingredients that make their celebrations magical

  • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
    FT GlobetrotterThe best of London: at home
    ‘Glimmers of good living’: the FT’s London lockdown discoveries

    From ordering epicurean adventures to swimming in the Thames — via collecting cool jumpsuits — here’s how we got through it first time around

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
    Food & Drink
    Q&A: Who would come to your fantasy dinner party?

    Join our FT editors for a light-hearted discussion.

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
    ReviewHistory books
    Scoff — how class has influenced Britons’ eating habits

    From supper or tea to the pronunciation of ‘scone’, Pen Vogler examines food habits as a marker of social status

  • Saturday, 26 September, 2020
    Autumn Food & Drink
    Flame academy: top chefs’ recipes for cooking over open fire

    From lamb ribs to apple fool and Bombay sweet potatoes, few pleasures are as primal

  • Friday, 25 September, 2020
    The 2020 festive food and drink guide
    Sweet drams: bartenders reveal the secrets of the perfect nightcap

    From Brandy Alexander to Midnight in Italy . . . we raise a glass to the most important drink of the day

  • Saturday, 12 September, 2020
    The Crown: a series special
    Charles Dance: ‘I’m not a movie star, I’m a working actor’

    The Game of Thrones star on the turns his long and varied career has taken, what you need to be an actor and his brush with James Bond

  • Saturday, 22 August, 2020
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    Why I’m happy I started crying again

    I hadn’t cried since watching ‘Baywatch’ in 1995 but now the taps have been turned back on

  • Thursday, 16 July, 2020
    FT SeriesMy kitchen essentials: I’d be lost without…
    My kitchen essential: I’d be lost without . . . garlic

    Alexander Gilmour on ‘vampire’ uncles and why the pungent bulb improves just about any savoury dish

  • Saturday, 4 July, 2020
    FT SeriesFantasy dinner parties
    Alexander Gilmour’s fantasy dinner party: Snoopy kisses Sally Rooney

    The FT’s Food & Drink editor selects the chef, dishes, guests and sommelier (guess who?) for his ultimate supper

  • Saturday, 30 May, 2020
    FT SeriesSummer Food & Drink special
    Bunker food: how to handle live lobsters delivered to your door

    ‘The lobster meat is sweet and rich and creamy — it has a beauty tinged with sadness’

  • Sunday, 12 April, 2020
    FTWeekend Live Q&A
    Bunker Food: What are you cooking at home?

    Join a live discussion with food writers Tim Hayward, Wendell Steavenson and Fuchsia Dunlop on Sunday April 12 at noon and 5pm UK time

  • Sunday, 29 March, 2020
    FTWeekend Live Q&A
    Live Q&A: who would come to your fantasy dinner party?

    Join our food and drink team for a light-hearted discussion at 12pm and 5pm GMT on Sunday 29 March 

  • Friday, 20 March, 2020
    FT SeriesSpring Food & Drink special
    Chef Daniel Humm on ambition, burnout and cooking as art

    When he became the best chef in the world, his life fell apart. Now he’s back with a new vision

  • Friday, 28 February, 2020
    FT MagazineLife & Arts
    The ostrich method: how I became immune to criticism

    You don’t get to rule the world by absorbing criticism — you reject it out of hand, you forge ahead, you dish it out

  • Friday, 13 December, 2019
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Be My Guest — or how hospitality can change the world

    Priya Basil’s reflections on food and sharing show us how we could lead more generous lives

  • Friday, 17 May, 2019
    FT SeriesSummer of sport special
    Virat Kohli: why we can’t take our eyes off India’s cricket captain

    The upcoming World Cup will be a showcase for his flawless technique, princely flamboyance and fierce will to win

  • Thursday, 18 April, 2019
    Companies8 min
    Are non-alcoholic beers ready to challenge the real thing?

    The FT hits the pub to put low-alcohol brews to the test

  • Friday, 15 February, 2019
    The Oscars 2019
    Richard E Grant: ‘My first question is always: what is the sex life of this person?’

    The actor on getting into character, his debt to Withnail and this year’s Oscar race

  • Friday, 21 December, 2018
    Books
    Podcast: Fiction special — Alexander Chee reads The Rosary

    The American writer reads a personal essay from his acclaimed new collection, How To Write an Autobiographical Novel

  • Tuesday, 4 December, 2018
    FT SeriesFood & Drink Christmas Special 2018
    Podcast: Christmas Food & Drink Special with Tim Hayward, Polly Russell and Chef Cyrus Todiwala

    Is Christmas best for six-year-olds? And was it better in the olden days? We rediscover the joy of festive excess

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