Could you stomach the new eco fad to turn leftover food into posh nosh?

After the excesses of Christmas and New Year, we’re all looking for ways to cut down on waste and make our food go a little further. And so are our food producers. Last January, the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) revealed that the UK throws away 9.5 million tonnes of perfectly edible food a … Read more

How POSH is your nosh? From your marmalade brand to your loaf, what you eat still defines your class

SOCIAL HISTORY SCOFF   by Pen Vogler (Atlantic £20, 480 pp) How do you pick up your peas from the plate? I ask because the humble little legume turns out to be the ultimate challenge when it comes to polite eating, the Mount Everest of etiquette. Debrett’s, the bible of good manners, is firm on the … Read more