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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
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      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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