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Eat This, Drink That, Live Well
News, views and tips from a lifetime's cooking, tasting and travelling from former Guardian wine columnist Fiona Beckett
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The Friday 5 #190
Greek food and wine special (without going to Greece)
The Friday 5 #189
Chillable reds, cut-price whites and a gorgeous cooling creamy dip. Plus this month’s cookbook giveaway
A mini-guide to Oxford
How to get the best out of this dreamiest of cities
Postcard from Oxford
The Cherwell Boathouse revisited
What makes a full Irish, Irish?
And do baked beans have any place on the breakfast table …
The Friday 5 #188
Malbec that isn’t Argentinian, how good is the hottest restaurant in London and one of the best meals I’ve made with a chicken carcass
The Friday 5 #187
8 Sainsbury’s wines under £7, where to eat in Bristol this summer and why you need a crustless quiche in your repertoire
Well-loved cookery writers #4 Diana Henry
And what Diana says about her writing
The Friday 5 #186
4 lush white wines under £10, this month’s cookbook giveaway and where to stop for a bite that isn't Greggs