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Jamie Oliver's cooking app

Mar 13, 2010 4:45pm

A monthly look at the best foodie appsWhat is it? The daddy of all food apps, Jamie Oliver's £4.99 digital mini-cookbook was the single-most lucrative app on iTunes UK only weeks after its launch towards the end of last year.Key ingredient? Jamie's anyone-can-do-this ethos. The result: 55 straightforward recipes,...

Rick Bayless' Mexican mole recipe

Mar 13, 2010 4:35pm

Rick Bayless is one of the best chefs in America and cooks Barack Obama's favourite Mexican food. Here is his recipe for mole – moh-lay – which took him decades to perfect Red Mole – the king of Mexican sauces 275g (5 medium) tomatillos, husked and rinsed70g sesame seeds140ml rich-tasting...

Tim Atkin how to cheat at wine

Mar 13, 2010 4:35pm

Tim Atkin's top affordable wines that rival the classicsThere must be some very long faces on the other side of the Channel at the moment. The French have always suspected we were a treacherous bunch, but they've just received a poke with a sharp stick to the vinous nether regions....

Love Music, Love Food

Mar 13, 2010 4:30pm

Food photographer Patrice de Villiers shoots some of Britain's best-known musicians with their favourite dishes for Love Music, Love Food, a project in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust ...

Video: Roger Daltrey on trout and the Teenage Cancer Trust

Mar 13, 2010 4:30pm

Behind the scenes with Roger Daltrey as the Who frontman is photographed with his favourite fish for Love Music, Love Food, a new project in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust ...

Thomasina Miers' simple Mexican recipes

Mar 13, 2010 4:15pm

Mexican dishes are easier to make than to pronounce. Thomasina Miers shares her favouritesPeople have been asking me to write this book for a long time," says Thomasina Miers, the one-time MasterChef winner turned restaurateur who co-owns Mexican restaurant chain Wahaca."I was a bit reluctant because Mexican cuisine rivals that...

Ariel Leve: I went somewhere new for sushi and didn't get sick. I was very proud of myself

Mar 13, 2010 4:15pm

I would eat sushi every night of the week if I didn't worry about mercury poisoning. I used to eat tuna all the time but I've had to cut back. Part of it has to do with the crunch. Not the credit crunch, but the "crunch" that's now...

Why we travel

Mar 13, 2010 4:10pm

It has long been said that travel "broadens the mind". Now new evidence proves that jumping on a plane will not only make you smarter, but more open-minded and creativeIt's 4.15 in the morning and my alarm clock has just stolen away a lovely dream. My eyes are open but...

Nigel Slater's classic rhubarb and custard recipe

Mar 13, 2010 4:10pm

It's a nursery favourite, but the dish is as quintessentially British as treacle tart or bread-and-butter-puddingThis is the dessert despised by everyone from Enid Blyton to the late Jane Grigson; but for me, a lifelong fan, this quintessentially frugal British recipe is up there with bread and butter pudding and...

John, Ashley, Tiger - and me

Mar 12, 2010 4:38pm

They were unfaithful, Julie Powell says, and so was I. But is infidelity always a bad thing, or can cheating be the making of a marriage?It's a familiar story by now. Lurid headlines, a disgraced sports star, a wronged wife, and then the mistresses start to appear. In the case of Tiger Woods it was one,...

Restaurant: Zilli Green, London W1

Mar 12, 2010 4:36pm

It's not hard to see why celebrity chef Aldo Zilli might want to turn his flagship into a vegetarian eatery. But it's impossible to see why anyone would actually want to eat thereWhen it comes to the teething troubles that almost invariably plague new ventures, sweet-natured reviewers such as myself...

A frightening prospect

Mar 12, 2010 4:36pm

Why is it that we enjoy being scared half to death by films and books?One wild and windswept recent afternoon – I know it should have been late at night, but it wasn't – I finally got around to watching Paranormal Activity, the ultra-low-budget horror film that became an underground success...

Noble salvage

Mar 12, 2010 4:35pm

What Retrouvius founders Adam Hills and Maria Speake don't know about reclamation isn't worth knowing. Here they talk to about rummaging in skips, demolition and how to make salvage work at homeWe met on our first day at the Mackintosh School of Architecture and found ourselves together in a skip, pulling...

Star turn

Mar 12, 2010 4:35pm

Its pungent, warming, liquorishy flavour makes this a real star turn in any cook's repertoireIt's pleasingly appropriate to me that today's kitchen star first dropped anchor in Europe in my home county of Devon; in Plymouth, to be precise, in 1588, when the navigator, Sir Thomas Cavendish, brought back a haul of pretty, pungent, star-shaped...

Let's be honest about childbirth

Mar 12, 2010 4:10pm

Having a baby? Don't believe the false promises, says Emily Woof. The gulf between natural birth and the medicalised approach puts mothers in an impossible situation. And she should knowI remember being at a party when I was eight months pregnant with my first child. I got into conversation with...

Alzheimer's isn't the end of the world

Mar 12, 2010 4:07pm

Alzheimer's is one of the diseases we most dread. But American expert John Zeisel, says there's a better – more positive – way to view itShakespeare, says Alzheimer's expert John Zeisel, could not have been more wrong. In the famous seven ages of man speech in As You Like It...

State of Grace

Mar 12, 2010 4:06pm

From a major V&A exhibition to the look of Mad Men's leading ladies, Grace Kelly is everywhere this spring. Actor Rosamund Pike pulls on her white gloves and travels to Monaco to recreate her timeless styleThe chemistry of being a movie star is about maintaining the perfect temperature. From the...

The happy epimedium

Mar 12, 2010 4:06pm

Tolerant to a fault, this exciting plant adds colour to even the shadiest spot before the garden really starts to rev up for summerAs you come into the garden at Glebe Cottage, past the little nursery, there is the option of turning right into the shady part. The leaves that...

'I don't know if I'll ever do a better thing'

Mar 12, 2010 4:05pm

This week saw the first three-way kidney transplant, in which living donors gave to a stranger in return for an organ for a loved one. Peter Martin, who donated a kidney to his sister, describes how it feelsFour years ago I gave my sister Paula a kidney. It was just...

I broke out of my orthodox cocoon

Mar 12, 2010 4:05pm

Jake Wallis Simons grew up within a strict Jewish community, his life governed by religious doctrine. But once he left school, he joined the outside world and has never looked backThe prospect of Britain and Israel going to war is an unlikely one. At the orthodox Jewish school that I...

How to dress: Shirtdresses

Mar 12, 2010 4:02pm

Jess Cartner-Morley, the Guardian's fashion editor, guides you through the latest trends. This week: shirtdressesJess Cartner-MorleyRebecca Lovell ...

Weekend readers' pictures: Building

Mar 12, 2010 4:02pm

Your best photographs on this week's theme, from an airport to a DIY-er ...

Tighten your belt this spring

Mar 12, 2010 3:26am

Can't afford a new spring coat? Bring your old one up to date with a handmade belt and matching buttons, says Sally Cameron GriffithsDespite the imminent arrival of spring, winter still seems to be with us. But that's no excuse to put off preparing your spring coat.Belted trenchcoats are everywhere...

Jade Jagger's guide to politics: vote for your neighbour

Mar 11, 2010 2:00pm

Or how the rich and vacuous decide on which party to supportLost in Showbiz doffs its chapeau to Vogue for doing our job for us this week with its Tom Wolfe-esque feature about who the "party people" will vote for in that general election thingummybob. Jade Jagger, Colin Firth's wife,...

Can you use Botox - and still act?

Mar 11, 2010 2:00pm

There are now classes on how to do it when your face can no longer moveReaders, it is my sad lot to inform you that Marina Hyde is MIA and unconfirmed reports are suggesting it's a hostage situation. Hyde, who was on an Oscars fact-finding mission, was last spotted flinging...

A girl's own adventure

Mar 11, 2010 1:00pm

Virginia Woolf's house, Gertrude Stein's flat – feminist pilgrimages are a great way to connect with history. So when Vera Groskop said girls were boring, her mother decided it was time for her first tripDespite my best efforts, my three-year-old daughter Vera hasn't exactly been celebrating her girlhood of late....

'Turning our faces against machines'

Mar 9, 2010 3:24am

At John Lobb, one of Britain's last remaining bespoke shoemakers, little has changed since 1849. Perri Lewis reportsPerri LewisLindsay Poulton ...

Video: Alex Byrne's guide to makeup - eyebrows

Mar 7, 2010 4:35am

In the third of a monthly series of online tutorials, professional makeup artist Alex Byrne demonstrates techniques for perfectly groomed eyebrowsElliot Smith ...

Do we need an International Women's Day?

Mar 6, 2010 4:09pm

For some, tomorrow's event is a necessity; for others, it is an anachronismAnastasia de WaalYou might say absolutely not – surely celebrations like these don't promote equality between the sexes but hammer home divides? Yet however much closer we creep to a scenario where life relates to who you are...

When Joe Glenton went Awol, so did compassion

Mar 6, 2010 4:09pm

'Lucky' Lance Corporal Glenton refused to return to Afghanistan and was branded a coward and a malingererThe word I keep coming across in relation to Lance Corporal Joe Glenton is "lucky". Glenton, 27, who refused to return to Afghanistan, and went absent without leave for two years, speaking out against...