A version of Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s arroz con pollo. The shards of chicken skin were outrageous. Courtesy of @harrietfl.ft.com at the FT.

The FT is hiring a correspondent for our Investigations team. Contact me if you want to discuss the role. Deadline is April 12 job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

As Nathan Newby receives the George medal today for extraordinary bravery, read the amazing story, published in the FT Magazine in December, of how he talked a would-be hospital bomber down. It’s an astonishing piece of writing from Ravi Somaiya and it’s Free to Read www.ft.com/content/cd59...

In which I reveal myself to be an Angry Local Person who points at potholes as.ft.com/r/860738a7-8...

I threw a Martha-Stewart-inspired Midnight Omelette Party, managed to get 30 people to come along, was allowed to write 2700 words about it by the brilliant @harrietfl.ft.com and it somehow ended up on the front cover of FT Weekend. READ ALL ABOUT IT HERE as.ft.com/r/96e10343-7... (gift link 🍳)

It’s a beautiful weekend — and for 300 lucky people who click the free link it can begin with reading this absoluyely mad yet undeniably insightful story from today’s egg-themed magazine. Jemima’s fever dream brought to life as.ft.com/r/2472cb26-a...

I have been let loose on another issue of global import: the rise of onions that won’t make you cry… or feel anything at all really as.ft.com/r/20f60742-4...

Some great columns this weekend. Here we have Jancis Robinson on an unrelatable but intriguing dilemma: what to do when you have more wine than you have time left to drink it as.ft.com/r/9412d53f-4...

Forgot my headphones for the train (sad) but turns out the people sat behind me are work colleagues on the brink of affair (or currently affairing - hard to say for sure but the energy is so potent I think not) Who needs podcasts! The world is full of wonders for those with ears to hear them!

This week’s guest restaurant review is about a cheap chain restaurant in an Abu Dhabi mall. If you’re thinking “that won’t move me greatly” you’d be very wrong!!! as.ft.com/r/37cca3fb-5...

Do you really have something better to be soon with your Sunday than mastering the art of laminated potatoes? as.ft.com/r/d49bca71-f...

We have guest restaurant reviewers in for the next three weeks, all in places we might struggle to get @jayrayner1.bsky.social to without blowing the full weekend budget. First up, this brilliant piece on how to open a hit restaurant in Ukraine as.ft.com/r/62ed053a-0...

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

I had the pleasure (?) of accompanying Jay on this weekend’s review. While I am disappointed he didn’t include my incisive attempt at restaurant criticism (“the loos were really cold”) it’s nonetheless a very good piece

“I dont see myself making a Christams in Paradise 2, OK?” FT reporting 🤝 a real life Caribbean crime drama - the perfect match as.ft.com/r/c83adbba-d...

“Everything is copy” - which to a food editor means if you mention in passing that you really enjoyed your dinner, there’s a 50/50 chance it will end up on our recipe page. With thanks to @janinegibson.ft.com in this case as.ft.com/r/b97949b2-6...

This is still less embarrassing than when I bought myself a nice ring I’d seen my friend wearing - only to discover it was her and her girlfriend’s (matching) engagement ring

It is a really good film!

It stopped raining for 15 minutes today so I went for a little walk and immediately fell over in the mud. Now I am home, it is raining again and nothing has changed except my clothes are covered in mud.

I have thought about it carefully and decided that, for the sake of my mental health during rainmageddon, I’m just going to pretend I never read this. as.ft.com/r/4e857ae2-3...

A welcome sighting of the rare, endangered (and sadly no conservation status given) “let’s get a bottle” lunch @henrymance.ft.com as.ft.com/r/26713c1c-4...

You should definitely consider picking up a Weekend FT today, because it's the magazine MAPS special. Radical cartography, maps that changed the world, an FT reader competition that almost started a war, they don't love you like i love you, MAPS! www.ft.com/content/efab...

Is it a tradition? Or is it just what @jayrayner1.bsky.social did? Is that the same thing?

Avengers Assemble II: Even More Avengers; And More Assemblies.

i can't add much to this without the risk of sounding embarrassingly gushing. safe to say i am delighted that @nigella.bsky.social will be joining us, and April can't come soon enough!

Reminds me of a very similar bit of training female members of the British secret service were given during WW2: "Don't ask a man who works for their government what's happening. Confidently tell him something you know to be inaccurate, and he will be forced to correct you".

Do you do a job *in* the hospitality industry? Is there a trend you've noticed on the ground that no one is reporting on yet? Please tell me about it harriet dot fitchlittle at ft dot com and maybe it could become one of our Insider's Notebook pages! Some writing experience necessary

spare a thought this morning for the part-time tiktok comedians looking bleary eyed on the tube after spending all night perfecting their first dance parody videos. content sleeps for no man.

...and he surprised me in many more ways than just his outfit!

Wrote about a new data centre proposed as part of the Truman Brewery redevelopment. Bit of a sub-plot here: a battle between the independent Tower Hamlets mayor and the Labour central government as.ft.com/r/0e720ddc-5...

Only a few days left to apply for the FT's Paul McClean Graduate Trainee programme -- deadline is 23:59pm on 8 January. I can't overstate what a great opportunity it is. Happy to chat if you're wondering about whether to apply. job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

J is for January and J is for JOY🤸‍♂️🪩 There's an all-new Appetites special in FTWeekend today and it's full of things to cook during the cold season - including a beautiful colour-coded calendar to last you the entire month. A good day to buy a paper! www.ft.com/joyofjan

Very fun Q&A happening right now with @jayrayner1.bsky.social @timhayward.bsky.social and Bee Wilson. Including an unwelcome answers to my question about whether it is ok to leave your Christmas ham out on the side all Christmas. www.ft.com/content/13dd...

Please tell these three wise food writers what troubles you at Christmas - eg the gymnastics of getting food to the table still hot, the sorrow of dry meat... - and they will give you very good answers.

Incredible, intensely moving piece. Astonishing courage from one man, and a very sad ending for another as.ft.com/r/74c0df5a-4...

If you work in or are interested in education, do give this a read. This investigation is about morals, money and misogyny (at an elite British institution famed for its feminist heritage) and several brave sources risked their careers to speak openly with us: on.ft.com/3XQUqDD @antoniacundy.ft.com

A gorgeous, gorgeous column by @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social about delicious food, parenting grown up children and being right. Three subjects very dear to my heart as.ft.com/r/e60ecf71-b...

"The Guardian called him a ‘mystic’, and Intel execs commissioned a caricature of him as a many-armed deity, each hand clutching fags and pints." An extraordinary profile by Tamlin Magee of his father, Michael, the technology journalist who became a leading figure in British occultism.

www.ft.com/content/420f... This is SO brilliant: Susie Wiles by Kellyanne Conway; Bad Bunny by Rita Moreno; Nigel Farage by Michael Gove; Zohran Mamdami by Bernie Sanders! WHAT a line-up 👏👏👏

We've put together a package of all Jancis Robinson's festive wine recommendations for the year. And still two more entries to come! www.ft.com/content/499d...

**FT GRAD SCHEME** applications are now open. Incredible opportunity for young wannabe hacks. Spread the word: job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

Legado in Shoreditch takes Best New Opening for 2025 and St John wins the Judge's Choice. Find out who else triumphed at the inaugural FT Weekend Business Lunch Awards, hosted in London by our critic Jay Rayner on.ft.com/4ixBlzB

We held the inaugural FT Weekend Business Lunch Awards today at the Cinnamon Club and awarded Bouchon Racine, Luca, The Bull at Charlbury, Legado and St John in front of their peers. This was the ovation for St John from their very finest peers

It's here! This issue is dedicated to how to do a few festive non-negotiables truly brilliantly. With @nigella.bsky.social @jayrayner1.bsky.social @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social @timhayward.bsky.social & more. It's rainy! Go get a paper then get back into bed. Alternatively: www.ft.com/christmas2025

No review from me today cos it’s the @ft_weekend.com CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, edited by @harrietfl.ft.com. It’s a banger and ever better in print. A top team including @nigella.bsky.social @timhayward.bsky.social @jancisrobinson.com and, er, me nominate the Christmas food must haves. on.ft.com/4rnR3lb

A lot of what Skye did - seasonal cooking, eliminating single use plastics, using 'waste' products - is so well integrated into the cooking mainstream that it is easy to forget how pioneering it was. My obituary tries to give some small sense of it on.ft.com/4ptDNJF

Here's the story. on.ft.com/4rd5VT2

you have absolutely no reason to take a food and drink editor's word for it, but this book is going to be brilliant - in fact that is the word used most often by its many illustrious early readers

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT TIME. I’m delighted to say a follow up to Nights Out At Home is coming. I’m delighted to say Nights Out In The Kitchen is published next September and to celebrate I’m going back out on tour with a brand new show. On priority sale tomorrow and general sale Friday.