Eleanor Steafel

In the year 2000, a story appeared in a magazine called Scientific American that quoted a biology professor as saying a human being would one day

There are some weeks when it feels impossible to really pay much attention to what you're eating until the weekend.

A roast dinner is a strange plate of food when you think about it. Multiple distinct ingredients, all cooked separately and without much tying them

When flames began to tear through Notre-Dame in the early evening of April 15 2019, it was one of the rare occasions when people across the world

Sometimes, discrimination is undeniable. Sometimes it's so loud, so overt and perpetrated in such plain sight that you can only hope anyone witnessing it musters the courage to speak up.

In the court of the internet, the usual order of play when trying a case – evidence, questioning, summing up, deliberation, verdict – is reversed.

Cutting potatoes into triangles can give you tight angles for a crunch. Semolina can get you a potato that is gritty and introduces an extra flavour.

As soon as the final Quality Street leaves the tin and the last scrap of Stilton has been finished off, most of us are overcome by a sudden urge to overhaul our eating habits.

If you were to ask Elon Musk or President-elect Donald Trump for their thoughts on Luton, you'd imagine both would likely stare at you with blank faces.

A TikTok algorithm is a curious thing. Mine thinks I want to watch a man disembowel a lithium battery, then place it inside a raw chicken breast and jump back as it spontaneously combusts like a kind of atomic chicken Kiev. Two million people have liked that video.