First, don’t catch your hare
Wondering what to get the foodie in your life this Christmas? Paul Levy has a few ideas
Portly and curious viands
Tom Jaine travels from the French West Indies to Hackney in search of culinary inspiration
Mind your language, professor
Andrew Anthony hails The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker's latest examination of the human mind that sheds new light on what our words say about how we think.
Wireless computer network risks to be investigated
· Government orders tests over two years· Health officials insist no need to suspend use
Delicious reading
In Kate Colquhoun's Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking, an excellent history of the nation's appetites is to be savoured - with caution, says Paul Levy.
Read my labels
Veronica Horwell gorges on Dana Thomas' Deluxe, an investigation into the modern attitude to luxury.
Flab grab
Raj Patel illuminates the failures of the global food system in Stuffed and Starved, says Felicity Lawrence.
A good feed
On reading John Dickie's Delizia! and Paul Richardson's A Late Dinner, Tom Jaine finds simple peasant fare is not all it's cracked up to be in a culinary tour of Europe.
Home ground
Kathryn Hughes finds that Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver's chronicle of living off the land - is saved from being preachy by glorious wit.
The good life – with Barbara on top…
Barbara Kingsolver extends all her domestic skills as she is 'livin' the vida local', says David Jays.