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The Chiappa Sisters’ favourite Italian foodie destinations

The Chiappa Sisters reveal their top Italian holiday destinations for food-loving travellers. Put these on your ‘must visit’ list!

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Watch: how to make Morito’s signature Crispy Spiced Lamb dish

Crispy spiced lamb with aubergines and mint is one of Morito’s most popular mezze dishes. Find out how to make it in our atmospheric video, shot at the restaurant. Buen provecho!

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Barcelona’s Best Tapas Bars chosen by Moro’s Sam + Sam Clark

London’s foremost experts on Spanish cuisine choose their five favourite tapas bars in Barcelona. If you’re planning a visit to that great city, this is one guide you need to guarantee a foodie trip to remember.

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How to win MasterChef: past finalists share their secrets

What does it take to hold your nerve and make it to the finals of MasterChef, Britain’s toughest TV cooking contest? Past finalists Tim Anderson, Shelina Permalloo and Dean Edwards share their secrets for success.

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What My Mother Taught Me: Claudia Roden

Claudia Roden shares wonderful memories of her mother – their life in Egypt and 1960s London, and the shared love of cooking that united them and inspired Claudia’s lifelong own lifelong passion.

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What My Mother Taught Me: Meera Sodha

Meera Sodha’s debut cookbook, Made In India, is packed with over 130 recipes from her family archive. Out in July, it is an accessible guide to real Indian cooking. Meera’s mother is a huge inspiration – here she tells us why and shares one of their favourite recipes.

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Claudia Roden’s Ultimate Mother’s Day Menu

The wonderful Claudia Roden has been introducing the British to exciting food from around the world for several decades. Her classic book, The Food of Italy, is re-issued this week. Here, she chooses three recipes from the book that would make a truly Italian feast to serve on Mother’s Day.

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What My Mother Taught Me: Mary McCartney

Mary McCartney’s wonderful vegetarian cookbook, FOOD, reads like a homage to her mother Linda’s passion for, and understanding of cookery. In this touching piece, Mary explains how Linda shaped her as a cook and shares Linda’s own Lemon Drizzle Cake recipe, a favourite in the McCartney household.

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Annabel Karmel’s top tips for making the most of family mealtimes

Annabel Karmel knows everything there is to know about feeding children of all ages. Here she shares her tips for happy family mealtimes – sensible advice to take the stress out of feeding your family.

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Annabel Karmel’s Ultimate Mother’s Day Menu

Annabel Karmel knows better than anyone how hard mothers work to feed their family. Her Ultimate Mother’s Day Menu is the perfect way to say “Thank you, mum” with a very special meal.

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What My Mother Taught Me: Rick Stein’s childhood food memories

Rick Stein reminisces about the food of his childhood – find out why his mother’s fish cakes are still the best he has ever tasted.

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What My Mother Taught Me: Nadia Sawalha’s Childhood

Nadia Sawalha grew up at the heart of a vibrant Middle Eastern family of food-lovers. In this nostalgic extract from her family cookbook, Stuffed Vine Leaves Saved My Life, she pays tribute to her mother’s passion for cooking and the influence this had on her own love of great food.

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