Olivia Potts

I’ve fallen in love with crème caramel

11 July 2026 9:00 am

If you’ve stuck out my cookery writing for long enough, you’ll know that I am a bit of a Labrador…

Goat is tasty. But don’t force it on me

4 July 2026 11:52 pm

‘Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made,’ John Godfrey Saxe warned…

Do single women bother to cook for themselves?

4 July 2026 9:00 am

Eli Davies and her spinster friends admit to a mostly ‘feral’ diet – of Kettle Chips and a satsuma, or a handful of grated cheese, or toast, washed down with vodka

Will a VAT cut save our restaurants?

3 July 2026 10:58 pm

The hospitality industry is in trouble. The last few years have seen an already low-profit, labour-intensive sector battle with a…

Chicken Milanese is the king of homemade fast food

27 June 2026 9:00 am

When it comes to home cooking, we’re obsessed with optimisation. Today this manifests itself in reels on Instagram offering a…

Embrace the squidge of a custard slice

13 June 2026 9:00 am

Ihad a culinary revelation this week. I like to think I’m an egalitarian when it comes to food – I…

Beef olives – classic comfort food, without an olive in sight

30 May 2026 9:00 am

We all did mad things during the first Covid lockdown. For some it was getting a dog or starting up…