Amy Bryant

One particular supermarket sells a cake that had us craving seconds, while others failed to deliver on the rich, buttery forkfuls we sought

High-street and haute-cuisine creations are put to the test – but which will be crowned the chocolate champion?

Featuring the superior supermarket batch to buy – and plenty to avoid

North African chicken Caesar? Indian-spiced prawn pastry puffs? Step into the kitchen of the chef who takes fusion to the next level

Adaptable, healthy and easy to make together, these recipes will keep your youngsters satisfied and entertained

Sundays, for many of us, mean a good stint in the kitchen.

Chickpea ‘chuna’ with jacket potatoes, a punchy peanut and black-eyed-
pea stew, barbecue cauliflower smothered in jerk spices – these are just some of the vibrant vegan dishes that have made Rachel Ama a star in the food world, with over 60,000 Instagram followers and 250,000 subscribers to 
 her YouTube channel, which has been running for less than two years.

‘Don’t panic,’ writes Elly Pear in her new cookbook, if you’re neither vegetarian nor vegan.

Their salads have been celebrated by Oprah, and snapped up by Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Hudson.

The chef Josh Katz has a garden full of barbecuing kit.

‘Buckwheat has a lovely nutty flavour, and coconut oil has beautiful notes of vanilla,’ Henrietta Inman says, as she ticks off the ingredients she loves to cook and bake with.

‘When the air is heavy, the scent of fresh bread reaches the pool, and swimmers can smell the scallops, too.

’I haven’t drunk coffee for 50 years, but I am very partial to hot chocolate whenever I have the chance,’ says Sir Evelyn de Rothschild.

’If you can make a cup of tea and use the toaster, you’re halfway there,’ says Sharon Hearne-Smith, explaining the concept behind her latest book.

For the food writer Olia Hercules, the smell of Easter is not that of saccharine milk chocolate, but the scent of the season’s first cucumbers.

A tweet by Oprah Winfrey, in which she claims to have lost 26lbs (almost 12kg) by following a Weight Watchers healthy eating programme - while still eating bread every day - has seen the diet company’s US share prices skyrocket by 20 per cent.

Fat. It causes high cholesterol, high blood pressure and heart disease, right? Think again. A new cookbook explains why ‘banting’ - the high fat diet - can be a healthy choice

Amy Bryant is saddened by reports that school choirs are in decline – they offer fun, camaraderie and crucial lessons for life

Amy Bryant is saddened by reports that school choirs are in decline – they offer fun, camaraderie and crucial lessons for life

The actress Zoe Telford breakfasts well and drinks ‘unhealthy amounts of tea’ on the Greyhawk set