While working as a private chef, Dan Lepard had a client pay him $200 a day to cook a poached egg each morning.(Getty Images/Jody Louie) Private chefs exist in an intimate domain of rare extravagance.

Dan Lepard’s collection of 280-plus baking recipes is a thorough and fun guide designed to be a “blueprint for great baking at home.” Lepard is a baking columnist for the Guardian in the U.K. Chapters ...

Award-winning food writer and photographer Dan Lepard came on to Woman's Hour to share his recipe for soda bread with Jenni. He made individual breakfast soda breads, but the recipe can also be made ...

How to bake: These are just the thing to share around the fire tonight Dan Lepard: November is the season for parkin, that sturdy, treacly oatmeal gingerbread, and Bonfire Night is the traditional ...