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Tom Kerridge and Yotam Ottolenghi are among a host of top chefs calling on Rachel Reeves to slash VAT for restaurants as they warn of a looming catastrophe for the industry. Restaurants say they have been left out in the cold after the…

The world's only cruise liner company to welcome pets on board has revealed the lengths it goes to to keep four-legged passengers - and their owners - happy on the high seas. Channel 4's Inside the World’s Most Luxurious…Cruises, which…

When a cruise ship is as long as two football fields, and weighs almost the same as the Eiffel Tower, it’s unsurprising that a lot of food is going to be coming out of its kitchens.But the Oceania Vista serves a whopping 6,000 meals to…

Virginia Woolf once wrote: ‘One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.’She was right – food is important, perhaps especially so on holiday when we have more time to savour meals.In a bid to get the best…

 A Woman's Place is in the Kitchen by Sally Abe (Fleet £22, 272pp) A Woman's Place is in the Kitchen by Sally Abe is available now from the Mail Bookshop.The 2011 London riots were in full swing, petrol bombs were thrown, bricks…

‘Can you tell me how to pronounce your surname, Miss,’ the onboard chef, Salih, kneeling next to me asks.He’s dressed head-to-toe in chef's whites, hat and all, and chats enthusiastically about the menu which sounds as though it could…