With wine as with food there’s always a temptation to overspend at Christmas time but if you indulge in a little bit of forward planning there are ways of keeping the cost down without short-changing your guests. 

One of those sublime pairings that makes you understand what matching food and wine is all about

If you’ve been inspired by Gordon’s menu in The Times today here are my suggestions as to what to drink with it. And for once they’re not wine . . .

Open any French food magazine and you’ll find pages devoted to them. There are whole books on the subject. No surprise, really - they’re easy, they’re pretty and they make you look like a great cook!

The one thing you really don't need this Thanksgiving morning is advice. Every food site on the web is crammed with tips. Talk about information overload! So I'm going to keep it brief. Very brief. One word, in fact and that is . . .

A home-from-home for Moro exiles in the south-west

In the second of his features on his recent trip to China, food writer and restaurant guide inspector Stuart Walton examines the burgeoning fine dining scene in Beijing and Shanghai.

I have to admit there's an element of nepotism about this pairing which I enjoyed the other day at my son’s award-winning steakhouse Hawksmoor where we were shooting new photography for the site (an exciting development about which more news shortly! )

With only a few days to go before the Thanksgiving feast two of our weekend cookery writers - Delia Smith and Rowley Leigh - are offering recipes for pumpkin pie. But which wine should you choose with them?

Corrigan’s must be in the running for the prize for the most interesting, user-friendly wine list in London but is the practice as good as the theory?