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Serves 4–6 • 3 large apples, sliced into 2.5cm / 1" thick rounds, seeds removed• juice of 1/2 a lemon• 1 tbsp (20ml / 0.7 fl oz) maple syrup• butter, for greasing the dish • 1/2 cup (70g / 2.5oz) raw hazelnuts, roughly chopped• 1/2 cup (70g / 2.5o

You’re the founding director of Mammalian Diving Reflex. What’s your company about? Mammalian Diving Reflex started in 1993. I trained as an actor initially. We did stage-based work with experimental scripts. Around the year 2000, there was a movemen

Makes 12–14 • 225g / 7.9oz almond meal• 200g / 7.05oz tahini• 6 medjool dates (around 95g / 3.35oz)• 3/4 tsp salt flakes• 5ml / 0.17 fl oz vanilla paste• 2 tsp ground cinnamon• 1/2 tsp baking powder• 2 extra medjool dates, sliced, for topping 1. Pr

Can you tell us a bit about you and your family? We're an adventurous family of three (myself Bela, partner Spencer and our daughter Escher). We're always looking for more opportunity to develop our independence and creativity. We think about creatin

Last night my kids and I sat on the living room floor, bent over colouring books, singing to ’80s music playing on the radio. Well, I was singing. They were asking me if various singers were dead yet, because clearly anyone alive in the ’80s must be

Dried cherries are delicious but can be hard to find. Use dried cranberries as a very tasty substitute. The dark chocolate is optional, but highly recommended! You could also use a couple of tablespoons of cacao nibs instead of the dark chocolate pie

Oliver James is not a man to shy away from dangerous ideas. A straight-talking, often outspoken British child psychologist, he achieved notoriety with the books They F**k You Up and How Not to F**k Them Up, paeans to the inevitability of messing up o

The first thing you should know about casseroles is that the word ‘casserole’ is French and actually refers to the cooking vessel itself. That is to say, you cook a casserole in a casserole and serve it straight from the casserole. (Meta, huh?) So by

Where did the idea for the book come from? I’m an imposter author. I’m not really a children’s author. But I wanted to buy a book about head coverings for my son and I couldn’t find one. I didn’t really intend to write it. I lived in South London wit

Okay, we admit it: ‘rodent’ is a bit mean. While the rabbit was once a card-carrying member of the order Rodentia, it achieved such world-spanning success and biological diversity that, in 1912, it was re-categorised into its own section: the mighty