(To skip to where I explain why I am stepping back from Out To Lunch click here.) When the idea was first put to me, appropriately enough over lunch, I didn’t think much of it. I should host a podcast ...

The cover image of my new book, below, is BIG for a reason. It’s designed to fill the whole of your screen, be it mobile, tablet or desktop so you can’t see the text below it, unless you actively ...

Next month Amazon Prime drops a new documentary series about Lorena Bobbit, an American woman who became famous 25 years ago because she was convicted of slicing off her husband’s penis. The series is ...

Helen Garnons-Williams, Publishing Director at Fig Tree, has acquired UK & Commonwealth rights at auction, in Nights Out at Home, by award-winning writer, journalist and broadcaster Jay Rayner, from ...

A week day lunchtime and I am standing by my stove again doing something appalling. I have done bad things with food before, of course. I once ate two Pot Noodles for dinner, and didn’t even feel ...

For their most recent Sky series Rob & Romesh Vs… those titans of British Comedy Romesh Ranganathan and Rob Beckett were challenged to open their own restaurant. Along with my dear friend and ...

Hello fabulous listeners to Out To Lunch, or what I like to call THE BEST INTERVIEW PODCAST IN THE UNIVERSE AND I’LL PUNCH ANYONE WHO ARGUES. For those who haven’t a clue what I’m talking about, where ...

Publ October 4 (perfectly timed for Christmas). Price: £5. ‘Jay Rayner isn’t just a trifle irritated. He is eye-gougingly, bone-crunchingly teeth-grindingly angry. And admit it – that’s the only ...

I would like to apologise to anybody who was hoping to see my Ten (Food) Commandments show at Russian Hospitality Week in Moscow, over October 17/18. I have had to cancel my trip for reasons ...

At some point over the past couple of weeks The Dulwich Estate, the vast south London landowner with charitable status which gives 85% of its expendable money to three highly exclusive private schools ...

As a biblical prophet I am often asked what to give loved ones for Christmas. Even though I am very much Old Testament and therefore pre-date the whole 'away-in-a-manger-follow-yonder-star' business.

Late on August 21 the Guardian press office received a request for comment from Ruby Lott-Lavigna, a journalist for Vice.com, for a piece that they were preparing on diversity in British food media.