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

I’m not going to get into a discussion about so-called natural wine or raw wine, except to say that I'm not a cheerleader for them. That...

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...

It goes without saying that I never review wines I haven't tasted. I'm making an exception now for Tiger Bone Wine, Chinese rice wine...

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...