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Roasted! Morrisons loses £17m VAT battle over rotisserie chickens. High court rules whole cooked cool-down chickens should be subject to standard 20% tax rate for hot food. https://t.co/tgmPtMnKNc

And remember, it's BLUE for salt and vinegar, GREEN for cheese and onion. These are the old ways and there is no need for them to change.

Adding butter to your foil-wrapped leftovers keeps them moist and adds a lovely richness. Mom might disapprove, but taste buds will celebrate! #CookingTips

Recipe of the Day: Turkey Roulades with Pork, Sage and Onion Stuffing⁠ ⁠ This is the ideal recipe for those who want to enjoy all the traditional flavours of Christmas without having to go through the whole turkey-cooking marathon. ⁠ ⁠ https://t.co/hqLKoqdhpp ⁠

The Filter: @joeatslondon chooses the best whisky to savour this Christmas: 14 tried-and-tested tipples, from scotch and single malt to blended and bourbon. https://t.co/yccxVfZ6as

"I ate 3,000 meals for my ‘best of London restaurants’ list – and I hope you disagree with it. From pie-and-mash to the swank of a Michelin star, everyone has their own idea of what’s ‘best’. What’s yours?" @demarionun on his list for @vittlesmagazine https://t.co/75O0gNv7Se

Italian cooking awarded Unesco cultural heritage status

The many types of cholesterol :-)

I think that offering smaller versions of dishes as an option is a good idea. No one wants to feel outfaced and send food back. But determining who gets what by their gender is a very bad idea. As the dissenting voice below attests 😂

Orm’s Brewhouse is a microbrewery and distillery housed within Ormside Hall, a 14th-century farmstead. Just 50 metres away rests the grave of a Viking named Orm—buried with his sword and the ornate Ormside Bowl—beside Cumbria’s oldest church. https://t.co/g1isXta23j

Extracting hangovers from beer: inside the world’s biggest ‘nolo’ brewery in south Wales. AB InBev unveils its ‘de-alcoholisation’ annex at Magor site as demand for once ‘lousy’ low- or no-alcohol beer rises. @zoewoodguardian reports 🍺 https://t.co/4p4UgrFhim

Elsie's Cook Book : Tested Recipes Of Every Variety, by Elsie the Cow. Bond Wheelwright Co., 1952.

The Filter: ‘A malevolent festive Jammie Dodger’: the best (and worst) supermarket mince pies, tasted and rated. Who better to sort the mush from the lush than our in-house perfectionist Felicity Cloake and our resident baker Benjamina Ebuehi? https://t.co/NQgTRspQhj

The Filter: supermarket Christmas crisps, tasted and rated. ’Tis the season for novelty crisps – from the delicious to the downright deranged. Crisp-addict Ravinder Bhogal crunched through the lot to find the festive flavours worth snacking on. https://t.co/jyaqCHAMq9

The Filter: ‘The smell of truffle is genuinely glamorous’: the best Christmas sandwiches in 2025. Sandwich messiah Max Halley sorts the merry from the meh in our taste test of supermarket and high-street festive butties. https://t.co/zPxvBijt24

Jamie Oliver to relaunch Italian restaurant chain in UK six years after collapse. Celebrity chef will start with branch in London’s Leicester Square, backed by Prezzo owner Brava Hospitality Group. https://t.co/qoRgEHRhlw

"I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began." Yasmin Khan says the granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. https://t.co/PFdkzaxEiE

Cheering myself up with this vintage episode of Farmhouse Kitchen. I’m obsessed with Dorothy Sleightholme’s presentation style. I’ve never seen anyone so apparently terrified to be on camera

Simpler times 👩‍🍳

December’s Menu of the Month is here - and it serves 6 with ease. ❄️✨⁠ Created to bring you delicious, winter-warming dishes without the stress, this menu makes smart use of ingredients you may already have in the freezer or the store cupboard.⁠ ⭐��� Starter: Potted Pork with