Godiva Chocolates, founded in Brussels in 1926, is known for its upmarket milk chocolate. Since 1988, Thierry Muret, a trained chemist as well as chocolatier, has been its development chef. The latest Godiva boutique opens today in Harrods in London.

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George Osborne under fire over 'pasty tax'

A group of MPs from across the political divide lined up today to urge the Government to rethink its proposals to slap 20% VAT on baked goods.

Buckwheat galette with ham and cheese

Serves 4 (2 galettes each; remaining galettes can be refrigerated and used within 2 days, or frozen)

Pikelets with rhubarb jam

Makes 24 pikelets

Tuile biscuits

Makes 8-10

Parmesan artichokes with fennel, asparagus and broad-bean salad

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The bus smells damp, it's snowing outside and I am going to be late for tutorials if this traffic doesn't start moving. Trafalgar Square appears and Nelson is scanning the horizon. I used to do that in crowds, unconsciously hoping to find a similar feature to mine. I've never met anyone I am related to, well, my father a few times in my twenties, but other than that – nothing.

Chicken croquettes will feature on Mark's new bar snacks menu

Chicken croquettes

Serves 4-6 as a snack

Steak and Yorkshire pudding salad

Steak and Yorkshire pudding salad

Serves 4

Made with passion: Crumbly and light iced passion-fruit cookies

Iced passion-fruit cookies

Makes about 24 biscuits

Sweet indulgence: Peanut-butter cookie ice-cream sandwiches

Peanut-butter cookie ice-cream sandwiches

Makes about 8-10 sandwiches

Chocolate-toffee biscuits

Chocolate-toffee biscuits

Makes 18-20 biscuits

Rabbit and crayfish stargazy pie

Rabbit and crayfish stargazy pie

Serves 4

Hanger steak with bone marrow

Hanger steak with bone marrow

Serves 4

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