Francesca Ryan

The grande dame of British cookery Prue Leith combines traditional borders with dashes of bold flavour in the Cotswolds.

How the ‘Garden for Fleur’ created for the actress Susan Hampshire nearly 50 years ago started an obsession.

In Tamasin Day-Lewis’s new book, Food You Can’t Say No To, the evocative dishes of her childhood – from roasted pork belly to sweet refrigerator cake– are the recipes she can’t resist.

Of all the world’s cuisines embraced by the Moscow restaurateur Arkady Novikov, Italian was his first choice when it came to setting up in London.

The British singer-songwriter talks to Francesca Ryan about her new album Sugaring Season, motherhood and cooking with her nose.

One lump or two? Francesca Ryan meets the chocolatiers behind the sort of coal that any child – or grown-up – would love to find in their Christmas stocking.

Through her blog, Smitten Kitchen, Deb Perelman has attracted millions of fans to the recipes she cooks in her tiny New York kitchen. Now she has written a book. Here are some of her favourite breakfast recipes

Each year Audrey’s, a chocolate shop in East Sussex, makes almost 2,000 Easter eggs for Fortnum & Mason. Francesca Ryan goes behind the scenes.

Mr Prempy’s, a raw-cake business started by two entrepreneurs from London, is sweetening up the ‘free from’ industry

The day before I interview Diana Henry she emails to apologise, in typical down-to-earth style, saying: