The furore over TripAdvisor has not abated. I can see both sides of the coin. I use the site myself to read reports of the hotel I am thinking of staying in. I also frequently recoil from the naivety of some of them: why would you expect huge plasma screens in a country pub or… Read more

The current buzz word is ‘foraging’. Not long ago it was the laboratory-transmogrified food of El Bulli, then it was ‘local’ and now every dull-witted chef in northern Europe is trying to ape René Redzepi. As ever, the one thing that really matters about food is completely over- looked – what it tastes like. Cooking… Read more