4 d. ago Best online food shopping: luxury, artisan and specialist ingredients with UK delivery

Stomach rumbling? Abha Shah presents the ultimate foodie directory

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5 d. ago Who stole all the cheese? The inside story of the boom in luxury food heists

Who would steal 22 tonnes of posh cheese, or £37,000 of smoked salmon? A rise in fraudulent orders for luxury foodstuffs has rattled the UK industry, leaving artisan producers with unpaid bills and a truckload of questions One day in October 2024, Chris Swales, 54, a smoked-salmon producer with a confident demeanour and a stubbled jaw, stood at the gates of an industrial estate in east London staking out the units. There were teenagers loitering about, knackered cars, XL Bullies; everyone seemed to have more than one phone. It didn’t seem like the sort of place where nine pallets of frozen fish would be delivered, but – he checked the address he had noted down from the courier – this was the place.A couple of months earlier, Swales couldn’t have imagined that he’d be sniffing around Walthamstow on the hunt for £37,000 in missing produce, yet here he was. In August, he’d received an email – subject: “Collaboration” – from a man named Patrick Moulin, who claimed to be the buyer for Ma...

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2 w. ago Jeremy Clarkson says unlikely food item is helping him with weight loss

‘Weirdly, it does taste and feel like the real deal,’ TV star said of luxury food item

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2 w. ago Jeremy Clarkson discovers random food item is helping him with weight loss

‘Weirdly, it does taste and feel like the real deal,’ TV star said of luxury food item

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2 w. ago Jeremy Clarkson ‘discovers’ random food item that’s helping him lose weight after Ozempic failed

‘Weirdly, it does taste and feel like the real deal,’ TV star said of luxury food item

Events

3 w. ago Mysterious questions surrounding Yankees star's son's death at Costa Rica resort

Miller Gardner, 14, is believed to have died by asphyxia 'after a possible intoxication' from ingesting contaminated food at a luxury resort in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica.

Events

last month Theft by Abdulrazak Gurnah review – love and betrayal from the Nobel laureate

This is a powerful story of debt and obligation set against the tourism boom in post-colonial TanzaniaA storyteller of understated brilliance, Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the 2021 Nobel prize in literature for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents”. Born in Zanzibar, Gurnah, now 76, moved to Britain in 1968 as a refugee of the Zanzibar revolution. His books often feature people who leave what they know and arrive “in strange places, carrying little bits of jumbled luggage and suppressing secret and garbled ambitions”, to use the words of a character from his 2001 novel By the Sea. Theft, Gurnah’s first book since his Nobel win, is in part a continued inquiry into familiar themes of exile and memory, home, longing and loneliness. It is also a poignant portrait of love, friendship and betrayal, set against Tanzania’s tourism boom during the 1990s.The novel follows Karim,...

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