Darren Gray

My guess is that the average FT-reading wine lover thinks of Cabernet Sauvignon as the grape that makes the longest-living reds in the world (there might be the odd vote for…
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At a time when everything is getting more expensive, including food, is it possible to pull together an interesting dinner-party main for £10? We challenged four chefs behind four…
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What is your earliest memory?So many things! Most of my world was tasting, smelling each moment of the day. I remember my father preparing crayfish in the kitchen; we lived in an…
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When Andrew Edmunds came over to your table at the London restaurant that bore his name, or at the Academy private members’ club above it, there was a good chance you were…
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When the weather gets colder, everyone wants soup ― but not everyone has the time to make it. If you’re short on culinary motivation, there are plenty of soup options in the…
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Before I became a journalist I worked in the theatre. It was a life rich in brain food but extremely short on sustenance – back then there were precious few places to eat or drink…
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Chef Enrique Limardo is commonly credited as the pioneer of modern Venezuelan cooking in the U.S. He is only the second Venezulean chef in the U.S. to receive a Michelin star, and…
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Last week, I sat at a bar in an airport in Paris and ate seven aeroplane meals in a row. The dishes arrived wrapped in tin foil, but this was not plane food as I have previously…
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With Quintal Coffee, Eduardo Umaña and Otto Becker want to transform the coffee industry. The Colombian-born Umaña invented the state-of-the-art VacOne coffee maker, a system that…
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Whether you’re going to a backyard get-together, housewarming party or game night, it’s almost guaranteed that a bag of chips and jar of salsa will be part of the spread. For…
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