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Chefs and entrepreneurs are showing that well-balanced meals can be made cheaply — and help children’s academic performance
From herbal teas to kombucha — can we eat and drink our way to happiness?
Delicious but hugely wasteful: why the muffin mountain may be doomed
The risks and rewards of catering for the festival crowd
Is there an ethical imperative to eat this fashionable food?
Restaurant dining avoids squabbles and stress – but it can be dangerous
A grassroots movement in Europe and the US helps integrate refugees through cookery classes
Hattie Garlick discovers that gender stereotyping starts early
Inside the restaurant outposts that exist purely to serve the food-delivery market
The Scots have cock-a-leekie, the Cambodians borbo sach moan, the Greeks avgolemono . . . Hattie Garlick on the world’s finest chicken soups
Mark Leigh, whose collection of 200 photographs of lost gloves includes an oven glove and a welding glove, never tampers with the evidence
With more than 1,000 to choose from, meditation apps have become a thriving industry. But can the path to inner peace really be downloaded? Hattie Garlick reports on a wellness backlash
Artist Thea Stallwood on making something beautiful out of the annoying
Demetrios Matsakis is responsible for the most precise clock ever created
Terje Isungset uses chainsaws, knives and drills to construct icehorns, isringles and iceofons
‘Our biggest challenge is that often our players have never even met each other’, says Karim Kerbouche
For landscape painter Sarah Adams, working on site is a race against time before the tides come in
‘What purring really means is: take care of me’, says veterinary behaviourist Sharon Crowell-Davis
David Latchford named his by-invitation-only club the South West Shingles Yacht Club after the buoy with which he collided
