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“Simply Julia”’s ricotta potato chip fish cakes with peas.Credit...Melina Hammer Turshen’s recipes never feel as though they’ve been developed in a test kitchen — a good thing! The food is comforting and familiar (ricotta and potato chip fish cakes with peas, vegan chili, pork tenderloin piccata, French onion meatloaf, mustardy cracker-crumb fish) and, thanks to a series of honest personal essays by the host herself (one on body acceptance, another on how cooking helped her anxiety), you can feel like your best self, too. Also helping with the charm: a series of pretty and practic...

Often the most maligned of meals, Ella Walker wonders whether a working lunch can ever be truly enjoyable. Whether you're now a seasoned homeworker, or have been travelling in every day throughout the last year - we've all got to eat lunch. And undoubtedly, it can get monotonous... be it sandwiches and crisps, a toastie, a microwaved bowl of soup, a cold and congealed supermarket pasta salad, maybe a tray of takeout sushi or noodles as a 'treat' on a Friday. Making lunch feel fun or interesting, or even just slightly different to yesterday, tends to be a Herculean feat of ingenuity, for...

Halley’s love of them comes from a simple place: getting tipsy on trains. “What nicer thing to do?!” he says, with one of those huge laughs. “Breaking the bread with friends or, quite frankly, with anyone, is a wonderful thing. And doing that by a river under a tree, listening to music, having a lovely time with your shoes off, is a beautiful way to do it.” The problem, Halley says, is when it gets to the food portion of the picnic. “We often accept substandard things just because it’s a picnic. We think hummus and pitta is enough – and it’s not. There’s also carrot sticks...

British picnics are a league behind Mongolian and Turkish affairs – it's time to up our game Our first tentative taste of freedom is something to be savoured to the full, says Anna Hart 'Right now, what British travellers have is picnics' Credit: Getty I used to be a cool customer when it came to travel. It took a Namibian safari or an Arctic adventure to really quicken my pulse. No longer! This week I had a picnic on my local stretch of sand in Kent, and I was practically vibrating with anticipation all weekend. My new lockdown-acclimatised standards are infinitely preferable, of course; I...

Banquets on blankets: Picnic kits, the best bottled cocktails and everything you need for park life 2.0 David Ellis Lockdown has begun to thaw. We’re all now allowed outdoors to socialise a little. And it is a little: restaurants and pubs aren’t back for couple of weeks, but we’re now able to get out with our household or meet one other person to catch up, including for the thrill of coffee on a park bench or a picnic. But after this endless lockdown, small changes feel like big things. It’s time to start feasting alfresco — especially now the rule of six has come in...