Harriet Arkell

HARRIET ARKELL meets the man behind M&S’s new decadent dessert - product developer for the store James Campbell, who has the best job in the world.

This full-flavoured dark meat is suddenly a huge trend: sales of venison are up 94 per cent year on year at Waitrose, while venison recipe searches on waitrose.com are up by 85 per cent, too.

There’s a new wave of cereals on the shelves this summer, packed with added nutrients, superfoods and grains to help us do just eat well at breakfast. And they’re delicious.

Sausages may be out of favour with shoppers (a new report says sales have fallen by more than a quarter since 2008), but some varieties are selling better than ever.

Traditionally seen as a winter dish, soup is, in fact, the perfect summer dish — easy to prepare, light, packed with veg, and generally low on the calorie front, too.

Wensleydale — a mild white, crumbly, tangy cheese — was first made in the 12th century by Cistercian monk settlers, before the local farmers’ wives caught on and started making it, too.

This summer, liquorice, particularly the salty stuff they go mad for in Scandinavia and the Netherlands, is very much in vogue, writes HARRIET ARKELL SAVVY SHOPPER.

Kurt Cobain’s childhood Aberdeen, Washington home has gotten a drastic price cut from the original price tag of half a million to $329,000.

The cold, the cost, the hassle... Harriet Arkell couldn’t face taking her children skiing for the first time, but a trip to Italy turned out to be their best family holiday ever!

MailOnline Travel’s Harriet Arkell visited DC with her two teenage boys. As they entered the city the ‘teenagers’ eyes shone with excitement’. Here Harriet describes the myriad highlights of their stay. They visited world-class museums and stayed in the opulent Waldorf Astoria. READ MORE: