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Stanley Tucci eats his way round Italy in a food travelogue you’ll be glad you watched and that’ll leave you starving. Here’s where to stream it in the UK, plus how to cook along.

Sylvester Stallone plays a mob capo exiled to Oklahoma in Taylor Sheridan’s crime caper. It’s daft, slick and a lot of fun, and season four is now on Paramount+.

Wireless meat probes and Wi-Fi grills promise to end the pink-in-the-middle guesswork. Here’s what they do, which ones are worth having, and when a £15 thermometer will do.

Smart indoor gardens promise fresh herbs and salad on a worktop, with automatic lights and watering. What the kit actually does, what it costs to run and who should buy one.

Real ale, craft beer and a few friends round the kitchen table. How to plan a home beer tasting that’s fun, educational and doesn’t end with someone asleep on the sofa.

Three fast weeknight dinners built on vegetables and beans: a harissa traybake, a buttery bean pan and a green curry. Proper flavour, real fullness, no lecture.

Most home stir-fries come out soggy and grey. Here’s how to get proper heat, crunch and flavour from a wok on a British hob: the kit, the prep and the timings.

Valencia is Spain’s third city and an easy direct flight from the UK. It has a beach on the tram line, a nine-kilometre park and the real paella.

More than half the calories in the average British diet come from ultra-processed food. Here’s what the evidence really shows, and how to cut back without a bonfire of the cupboards.

Booked somewhere smart and quietly dreading the cutlery? Here’s how to handle fine-dining etiquette in a British restaurant with good manners, no stiffness and no faff.

Prague in April and May means orchards in blossom, castle gardens reopening, a world-class music festival and beer gardens with views. Here is how to do it properly.

Why April and May are the best time to visit Istanbul: tulips, Judas trees, spring artichokes and the cheapest intercontinental commute in the world, all about four hours from the UK.

Weight-loss injections can reduce more than body fat. Here is what the evidence says about muscle loss, and how to protect your strength without living in a gym.

Want to try fermenting at home? Start with a small batch of sauerkraut, learn what safe fermentation looks like, then decide whether kimchi, kombucha or sourdough deserves your time.

No food quietly destroys your health. But five familiar buys can make it easier to overdo sugar, salt or saturated fat. Here is what to check and swap.

Glasgow’s gift to the nation, made properly at home: charred chicken, a silky sauce, a fraction of the takeaway price and a freezer full of weekday lunches.

A high cholesterol result is not a verdict. Here is how to read the numbers, understand your QRISK3 score and decide what is worth discussing with your GP.

Blood pressure tends to rise with age, but you needn’t shrug it off. Here’s how to get a useful reading, understand the numbers and decide what to do next.

Red with meat and white with fish? Not necessarily. Here’s a practical guide to choosing wine for the food you actually cook, without turning dinner into an exam.

Muscle loss in midlife is not a sentence to spend your sixties avoiding stairs. Here’s how to train, eat and spot changes worth discussing with your GP.

An app can water your pots while you’re away. It cannot grant permission to use a hosepipe. Here’s how to build a useful system without buying unnecessary kit.

A raised cholesterol result is not a verdict on your diet. Here is how to read the numbers, spot possible inherited risk and decide what to ask your GP.

The sun clocks off early, but your vitamin D routine needn’t be guesswork. October is the usual starting point; some men need a daily dose year-round.