Put a jar of honeycomb on the table and somebody will always ask the same question before they touch it: do you actually eat the wax? You do. Here's everything else worth knowing. The short answer Honeycomb is entirely edible, wax included. When you bite into a piece, the honey floods out straight away and you're left with a small ball of soft w...

The five honeys in our range come from the same producer and the same certified organic beekeeping. Put them side by side and you'd hardly guess it. One is nearly as clear as water. Another is close to black. One smells faintly of mint, and one isn't made from flowers at all. Here's how they differ, what each one is good for, and how to choose. ...

Some time after you open a jar of honey, often a few weeks and occasionally just a few days, you notice it isn't pouring the way it used to. It turns cloudy, then thick, then solid enough to stand a spoon in. This is the question we're asked about more than any other, so here's the complete answer. Crystallised honey hasn't gone off Start with t...

There are two kinds of people when it comes to food between meals. Snackers want one thing, at one time. A biscuit with a cup of tea. A bag of crisps at four o'clock. Grazers are different. A handful of nuts on the way past the cupboard. A couple of apricots with a coffee. A spoonful of something straight from the jar. Grazers rarely sit down to...

We wanted to build a hamper that avoided everything we dislike about hampers: the straw, the miniatures, the sachet of something nobody asked for. So we started with one rule. Every item had to be something a person would genuinely eat, and every item had to be certified organic. Not "natural". Not "wholesome". Certified. We ended up with five. ...

Most of us have received one. A large, handsome basket, a lot of shredded paper, and inside: a miniature jar of chutney, a sachet of hot chocolate, a small packet of shortbread and a mystery condiment that sits in the cupboard until it expires. A food hamper should be the easiest present in the world. Everyone eats. So why do so many end up half...

A recipe asks for coconut milk. The cupboard holds a tin of coconut cream, a hard white block and a carton from the chiller. Will any of them do? Some will, with a little adjustment. One definitely won't. They're all made from the same nut, but they're made in different ways, and the difference is mostly about how much fat and how much water you...

Pick up a jar of supermarket honey and turn it round. Somewhere near the barcode, in small print, there's a good chance you'll find the words "blend of EU and non-EU honeys". It sounds official. It isn't telling you very much. What the phrase tells you, and what it doesn't Honey labels have to state where the honey came from. When a jar holds ho...