A chef in Russia has confessed to luring a man to his flat so he could kill and eat him and then posting videos of the dishes he made from the corpse on the internet.

A talented chef who was worried she was going to lose her job killed herself, despite being assured earlier in the day by the celebrity cook Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall that she was to be kept on.

Plenty of people, no doubt, find ‘Saturday Kitchen’ annoying, but few do anything about it. The BBC show’s unchallenging mixture of cooking advice, old clips (Keith Floyd, invariably, being any given week’s highlight) and weak banter will not, inevitably, appeal to everyone but there is one group who have particular reason to feel aggrieved. That group is Britain’s growing army of craft beer lovers.

"I'm still a cranky old fuck," declares Bourdain, at the end of this book of memoirs-cum-pensées. "And I'm still angry." Well, who'd have guessed?

Mark Hix has won the Cookery Journalist of the Year award for his food writing in The Independent at the Guild of Food Writers' Awards.

The Government's approach to the trade in fishing quota has been criticised by a committee of MPs.

It’s the quintessential British pan, but even if you’re more Heston services than Heston Blumenthal, a good fryer is a crucial bit of kitchen kit...

The detective leading the hunt for missing Claudia Lawrence revealed today that he could have "potentially" spoken to her killer, as her friends and family marked the second anniversary of her disappearance.

These are the tools favoured by chefs in the world’s top restaurants and budding masterchefs at home. Slice and dice with this cut of the finest blades...

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Find out how to cook a traditional 'English breakfast' with a demonstration from television chef Antony Worrall Thompson

The Australian-born chef is i's TV Dinners columnist, and author of 'Bill's Basics'. Here he chooses the places, products and people that he's loving right now.

A memo to Little Chef. While giving the chef on your logo a name and then producing a range of branded goods, from mugs to t-shirts, must have seemed like a brilliant idea in the marketing department's brainstorming session, a little bit more thought might have been wise. There is just a small risk that the "I love Charlie" slogan may be misunderstood by those who have a passing familiarity with drugs slang.