Food
Breaking a few eggs
“Before anyone had even thought of hen-rehoming as a thing, my mother had become an inadvertent rehomer of escapees from the nearby broiler house”
Roast mutton and other stories
“I had lately acquired a leg of gigantic lamb, last in the shop, a birthday treat capable of feeding at least eight hungry revellers, destined for a sad lockdown twosome”
The meathead diet
The preachy new breed of carnivore
Preserved in aspic
Delving into a record of postwar family meals
Have your meat and eat it
Meat substitutes, previously the stuff of science fiction, are growing in popularity
Chuck it
The joys of throwing things away
Trying to beat an egg
Ollie Dabbous’s new London venture disappoints Lisa Hilton
Pressing matters
Pressing on with the task of making apple juice
Woodcock is a no brainer
Would you, could you, eat a brain?
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts