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• Copenhagen on a plate: eat and drink your way around with our expert picks

  27-06-2026 15:00
  Insider knowledge of the Danish capital’s food scene: four chefs (and our head of food) share their favourite spotsWhere Copenhagen leads, the food world still followsIt has to be Københavns Bageri; they upgrade beloved Danish classics using the best ingredients. The cardamom buns are second to none, but the “potato cake” – that’s a choux bun filled with vanilla custard and topped with a cocoa-dusted marzipan disc to resemble a potato – might be my favo
  
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• ‘I ate the whole bag like a packet of crisps’: the best supermarket salad bags, tasted and rated

  27-06-2026 14:00
  Mixed leaf salad can be a mixed bag, but which supermarket offerings are filled with crunchy green goodness and which are woefully wilted?• The best supermarket strawberries, tasted and ratedSupermarket salad bags can rarely compete with the wonderful diversity of leaves found on small farms. The former are often made up of only two to four types of leaf (spinach, sweet batavia or butterhead, maybe some rocket and a bitter leaf such as frisée), compared with the incredible range of e
  
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• Best thing I ever ate? Dim sum in Happy Gathering, a small Chinese corner of Wales

  27-06-2026 13:00
  Heaven is a round table in a favourite Cardiff restaurant, and dainty dim sum tucked inside bamboo basketsWhenever someone asks what my death row meal would be, I say dim sum without fail. It’s cheating, I know; a loophole where you don’t have to choose. I’ve spent more time thinking about it than I’d like to admit, but what I love most about dim sum is that you never have the same experience twice – a bit like snowflakes, no two are ever the same.Dim sum covers all
  
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• Where Copenhagen leads, the food world still follows

  27-06-2026 08:00
  Two decades after chefs rewrote the rules at Noma, Copenhagen’s food scene still flies the flag for seasonality and innovation – progressive, sustainable and uniquely DanishI didn’t realise I was a fussy eater until I left Denmark. During 12 years of living Danishly, with regular trips to the capital, I just … liked most things. Danes specialise in high-quality, organic produce, eaten as close to its natural state as possible. Denmark has very specific, diverse climatic
  
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• Meera Sodha’s recipe for spinach, pea and cheddar frittata | Meera Sodha recipes

  27-06-2026 07:00
  An easy cheese, peas and egg dish, enhanced with leeks and greens, makes a crowdpleasing summer mealWhenever I think of cheese and peas together, I think of “Cheesy peas!”, a fictional food advertised to “northern types” by Paul Whitehouse as part of a comedy sketch on The Fast Show, a television series broadcast in the UK in the 1990s. The advert went like this: “Think cheese! Think peas! Think cheesy peas! They’re great for your teas. It’s easy-peasy w
  
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