The competition winners are announced!

Gordon Ramsay’s top chefs Jason Atherton and Stuart Gillies provide Christmas cooking tips. Chat date: Monday 3rd November 2008. Chat time: 11.30 am

Celebrate Halloween with this gorgeously fiendish pumpkin cake and it’s gluten free!

It may seem like a strange instruction to offer a reader of a food website how to use a cookery book. However, how many books come with instructions of how to use them? None.

The 2008/9 British leek season is here! Running until end April 09, what better time to tuck into fresh, flavoursome British leeks. With rising food prices making us all more supermarket savvy, choose British leeks for flavour on your table and change at the checkout.

If you want to live doing the most good and least harm possible to our planet but are confused about how, or it all seems too much hard work, then keep reading this series of articles.

In June this year, official figures showed that food prices are increasing at their highest rate for 14 years. In fact, the cost of food is rising faster than our incomes. It seems a decade of cheap food is over.

Have you seen the TV adverts for Country Life butter, with John Lydon? As well as trying to sell the butter for it’s taste, there is also a serious theme – supporting British farmers.

We all remember spending a rainy afternoon making chocolate covered Corn Flake cakes as kids – and licking the cake making bowl out afterwards. The Big Bake campaign is here to encourage us to cook as a family and re-create those memories for our own kids.

National Baking week is in full swing and people all over the country are grabbing their blenders and whisks! Having a gluten allergy or intolerance does not mean that you can’t enjoy baking too! Take a look at this oh-so-naughty but oh-so-good recipe for gluten free Profiteroles and you’ll see …

Last weekend saw our yearly pilgrimage to the Pumpkin Man of Slindon and as always his displays didn’t fail to impress. This year’s newcomer to the Eating Britain kitchen is the Little Gem Squash and I have a recipe that’s so easy, you have to try it!