British Chefs Table

Let me tell you a truth I’ve had to learn the crumbly way: Viennese biscuits are deceptively innocent. You think, “Oh how sweet, just a …

I’ll be honest with you — I used to think white chocolate was a bit of a poser. Too sweet. Too cloying. The sort of …

I can still smell the warm lemon drifting through my mum’s old kitchen on a Sunday afternoon — sunlight cutting through the net curtains, kettle …

I first made Nigella Chicken Basque on a grey Tuesday when I had too many peppers on the verge of going mushy and not enough …

Millionaire’s shortbread is like the dessert world’s equivalent of a luxury yacht — no one really needs it, but oh, do we want it. That …

Let me be honest — I avoided making French onion soup for years. Thought it was one of those posh recipes that sounded simple but …

I don’t know what it is about rhubarb that feels a bit nostalgic — maybe it’s the way it grows wild and messy in British …

Alright, cards on the table — I used to dread Coronation Chicken. The name sounded too formal, like it belonged on silver platters at awkward …

You know that one dessert that just gets you? This is mine. It’s sunshine in cheesecake form. No oven, no cracked tops, no water baths. …

The first time I made this beetroot cake, I was living in a poky flat above a bookshop in Cambridge, rain tapping on the windows …