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Tuck into JAN MOIR’s deliciously demanding food quiz 

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Are you a smart cookie or a dumb waiter? Will you find our festive food quiz as easy as pie or a hard nut to crack? Snacks at the ready, and let’s get started. Use your loaf to discover whose goose is cooked and who is bringing home the crispy bacon.  LOCKDOWN 1. Thousands started … Read more

JAN MOIR’s view from the sofa as The Great British Bake-Off returns at last 

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The Great British Bake Off  Rating: With a transmission time pushed back 15 minutes because of the Prime Minister’s Covid address to the nation, the Great British Bake Off cooked up some piping hot revenge. Judges Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood, alongside new host Matt Lucas, began the 11th series with a spoof health warning … Read more

JAN MOIR’S upper-crust guide to ITV’s new drama Belgravia, the new Downton Abbey 

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Prepare yourself for the finest of bonnets, a cavalcade of corsetry and a hairy parade of the shaggiest mutton chop whiskers seen on TV since the final of Crufts.  Welcome to Belgravia, the new six-part ITV drama set in high society London in the 19th century. Many are calling it the new Downton Abbey, but not … Read more