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As Bake Off returns for a 10th series on Tuesday, here are the highlights and controversies, from squirrel nuts to #Custardgate

Here is a beautifully quick risotto that even the novice cook can pull off

Transcript: Murdered woman’s mother Mary Coll and sister Jacqueline Connolly speak out

Family in Co Wexford grieving for lost siblings suffering due to ‘lack of compassion’

A chat with the ‘indiscreet’ Bake Off judge and cookery writer can take surprising turns

'Great British Bake Off' star says: ‘I was brought up on Irish Stew’

Food File: Irish food in the Phillipines and the Shelbourne pops some champagne corks

Food File: Luxury jams, summer lobster and Vish Sumputh moves to Luna

Reality TV: The US hit is like the worst bits of ‘The Great British Bake Off’ – but it works

GLOW returns in all its spandex glory while Romesh Ranganathan visits the most dangerous places on Earth

The Great British Bake Off, newly on Netflix, shed light on the origins of this expression

Behind the scenes at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle wedding, a tribute to Elton John and bringing our boglands back from the brink

Late Late Show remembers Big Tom while Benedict Cumberbatch joins Graham Norton

After Masterchef UK's ‘Rendanggate’, Conor Pope looks at other chefs’ blunders

Can anything explain the enormous divergence of opinion among prominent food writers on the simple matter of roasting the Christmas bird?

Patrick Freyne: These modern cookery programmes are giving youngsters an unrealistic idea of what food should look and sound like

Donald Clarke: No hiding place for ‘Bake Off’s’ poor Prue Leith even in Bhutan

After its controversial move from the BBC to Channel 4 this year, the baking show returns

Few crumbs of comfort for GBBO fans as baking show moves kitchens