It seems that we can't step into our kitchens without a Nigel Slater or a Nigella Lawson or a Gordon Ramsay tome clasped firmly in our hands. They are our prop and stay, the quiet adviser at our elbows when we finally begin the ...

I've given my own Tom Kha Gai soup a bit of a Malaysian makeover using some inspiration from Gordon Ramsay's Malaysian Curry recipe (from his “Sunday Lunch” book. There's also a good laksa recipe in Nigel Slater's “Appetite“). ...