Smith describes the honour as "a tribute to all home chefs".

Could this northern star L'Enclume be the greatest restaurant in Britain?

Created in 1860 but still popular today Campari is a drink to enjoy any time any place and with any mixer.

Lunch at The Dower House serves up a keenly priced treat for visitors to Bath.

A fabulous and quick pasta dish for these dark evenings.

The very best British cheeses for Christmas 2009.

Pierre Koffmann shows Xanthe Clay how to collect and cook wild mushrooms.

The best Christmas pudding recipe ever plus a divine trifle.

As the finalists in the BBC Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards show a chatty grocer will always beat a silent supermarket.

Bee Wilson on restaurant markups.

Jonathan Ray's pick of the top wine deals.

If you want to be totally tropical then leave out the raspberries and add more mango. And make sure you get a really good custard - it makes all the difference.

Chocolate and rum. An unlikely partnership but one with a very persuasive punch.

This new London restaurant is great for gourmands but not so good for the arteries writes Zoe Williams.

The Crown Liquor Saloon Belfast is a national treasure.

This Christmas pudding evolved over the years and now I never change it. Use tart as well as sweet dried fruit cranberries and sour cherries for example and buy the best you can. I suggest a sweetish beer but you

A meal for six in an hour for less than £35.

Rose Prince's recipe of the week: Baked Haddock Pots.

Pierre Koffmann's mushroom omelette recipe.

No need for wild mushrooms in this creamy autumnal soup. Cultivated do just as well.