‘Hazy renderings of a restrained gastronomy’
Pierre Bonnard’s paintings of simple domesticity belie his diligent and complex method
Gillian Riley
‘La vie! La vie!’
Our resident food historian paints a portrait of an artist synonymous with bohemian 19th-century Paris
Breaking Bread
Chardin and dough are on the menu as our resident food historian makes a welcome return
Cream of the crop
Our resident food historian explores our favourite icy treat, and the chefs and writers for whom it is an obsession
‘How to bring to life a totally unknown cook?’
Our resident food historian dips into author Vicky Hayward’s ‘brilliant’ revival of an 18th-century friar and his recipes
Austerity: Platina, Martino and the New Cuisine
Our resident food historian puts Christmas behind us with a look at the ‘simple tastes’ of the Italian Rennaissance humanists
The Pies Have It
Our resident food historian on a British staple and its place in Victorian Christmas feasts
The house of Medici and its fascination with pear paintings
Our resident food historian on the humble pear
Puppy-dog explosion and vanishing kittens
Our resident food historian touches on a culinary taboo as she ponders the proliferation of dog-walkers during the pandemic
What did you eat during Covid, Daddy?
Our resident food historian returns to explore child hunger and ask what we can learn from scenes painted by artists of the past
London’s water
Our resident food historian on how the capital went from epidemics caused by faulty sewage to enjoying one of the safest tipples around
Lockdown lunches and crowded picnics
Our resident food historian on outdoor get-togethers, and why it is still the grub that ‘makes it all worthwhile’
Yellow on a plate
Our resident food historian transports us to the warm south through colour, Van Gogh and a drop of absinthe
Lemongrass
A Dutch master leads our resident food historian deeper into the world of citrus
More Lemons
Our resident food historian delves further into the world of balms and medicaments