Trullo serves Italian wines and Italian regional food laced with British ingredients

Normally the Conti Contini Bonacossi family get through about 70 litres of their own organic extra virgin olive oil a year, but this year...

Pork dishes in four Michelin starred restaurants (clockwise from top left): Duke of Berkshire barbecued pork ribeye, baked potato, sorrel...

As I sat on the train reading up about the dinner I was heading for at Northcote in Lancashire, a Michelin-starred restaurant and AA...

Above: Iberico pork, ajo blanco, boquerón anchovies, eggshell and cinders by Michael O'Hare. The edible eggshell was made from egg white, lactose, oyster juice and garlic powder painted over balloons and hung on a washing line for two days to dry. Easy when you know how. I once flew to Australia for three days. The round-trip took six days and everyone said it was madness. Maybe it was, but, boy, it was worth it. I flew in – guest taster from Europe – to taste every vintage

Cooking over fire at Ekstedt (clockwise from top left): wood-fired oven with loaves of bread waiting at the side to go in, smoke box and...

For some reason 2016 is turning out to be a great year for eating. I seem to have had more, more than usually exciting restaurant meals...