Food
- HealthThe Telegraph
‘The aroma of a wet spaniel’: The best and worst gluten-free beers
The UK is the fastest-growing market for gluten-free beers in Europe, with sales currently standing at around £155 million a year and expected to increase in value by seven per cent by 2031. And while those with a gluten intolerance will understandably reach for a G-free option, lots of drinkers with no obvious sensitivity are also buying them. Some believe that they feel less bloated after drinking gluten-free beers than their standard equivalents, though the research on this is patchy.
3-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
From Nigella’s must-have vinegar to spaghetti dust: The middle-class condiments you need in your cupboard
Once, a manky bottle of ketchup and a half-used jar of mustard were staples on British dinner tables. Not anymore – at least in food-savvy households. These old faithfuls are being replaced by fiery, umami-laden condiments that add punch and extraordinary flavour to the simplest dishes.
6-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
Pink custard, tapioca, liver and onions: The school dinners we miss the most
Hands up if you remember pink custard. Mashed potato served with an ice-cream scoop? Vast trays of meat pie, chopped into neat square rows with a metal spatula? If you do, you were lucky enough to be a pupil during the halcyon days of school dinners.
9-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
75p vs £5.50: Is it worth splashing out for supermarket clear honey?
We’re a nation of Winnie the Poohs, the third biggest importers of honey, after the USA and Germany. But we don’t want to pay for it. More than half the honey we import comes from China, which produces the cheapest in the world. By contrast, British honey costs nearly three times as much on the European market.
2-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
The fast foods top chefs secretly love
While fast food gets a bad rap – often fairly – sometimes it just hits the spot. And for top chefs, it’s no different. Despite spending hours a day in professional kitchens working with the finest ingredients, many of them reach for the occasional burger and fries or a cardboard box of greasy fried chicken when their shift is over.
7-min read - LifestyleThe Telegraph
‘Like it’s been rinsed through a bag of boiled sweets’... it’s our canned red wine taste test
Vin in a can, vin in a tin, call it what you will, canned wine is creeping into our lives. Waitrose moved all wines permitted to be sold in small bottles out of glass and into cans to reduce its carbon footprint in 2023 and the supermarket says its sales of canned wines were up 36 per cent in 2024, no doubt partly as a result of this shift. Meanwhile canned wine, once pitched as the perfect package for summer festivals and train journeys, is also moving upmarket. Canned wines from the Canned Win
2-min read - BusinessThe Telegraph
Suffolk boozer regains Britain’s top gastropub title with ‘seriously good, unfussy food’
Far from being just a boozer with an elevated food menu, this year’s winner of the Estrella Damm Top 50 Gastropubs list deserves to be recognised as “a damn good restaurant,” says the Telegraph’s food critic, William Sitwell.
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