Blue skies, a gentle breeze and food for the tasting everywhere. Nick Harman spends a few days in the South of France. Day one.

Oysters? Bloody Marys? Double Decker Bus? Damn, that’s cool.

The Mussel Men pop-up restaurant is setting sail! After many successful pop-ups in the summer of 2013, The Mussel Men have secured themselves a permanent location at 584 Kingsland Road (near Dalston Junction) from the end of May.

The Sumatran Orangutan is under threat of extinction. There are only 6,000 wild orangutans left in the wild, due to mass deforestation. Orang Utan Coffee has produced a flavorsome, sustainable coffee, which will help to prevent deforestation. Their coffee is being launched in the UK and Ireland, and will be exclusive to Waitrose. It is an ethically sourced coffee – grown on sustainable plantations.

Get your fresh ginger on with this long drink idea.

We joined food writer and chef Rachel Khoo for a Kitchen Workshop to try out some of her recipes ahead of the start of two of her latest cookery shows, which begin tonight on the Good Food Channel: Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook: London and Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook: Cosmopolitan Cook.

The room is lovely, a 1930-s ish central bar/dining four sided island with the open kitchen facing one side and a Carrara marble deli counter with fifty varieties of cheeses and British cured meats facing the other, it’s lit and furnished in a way that makes you think of classic French brasseries. It feels right straightaway. 

Ahead of the summer party season, Alan Kingsbury catches up with the latest on three of the best selling New World wine brands.

Basically you could call it a Cafetiere that you can drink directly from. Add coffee to the main jug, then add your (off the boil water, because boiling water kills coffee). Wait a few minutes then press down the inner sleeve which has a bottom made up of a fine strainer. When the sleeve is fully depressed it contains your drinkable coffee with the grounds safely on the other side.