Diana Henry The Telegraph's award-winning cookery writer Diana Henry is the Telegraph’s much-loved cookery writer. She shares recipes each week, for everything from speedy family dinners to special menus that friends will remember for months. She is also a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4, and her journalism and recipe books, including Simple and How to Eat a Peach, are multi-award-winning. A mother of two sons, Diana can satisfy even the fussiest of eaters.    See more Published 01 May 2026 12:27pm BST I still have the photographs of the first meal I ate at Café Cecilia in East London on my phone. I went there after it opened in 2021. The young Irish chef, Max Rocha, had worked at The River Café and Spring in London and I wanted to see how his Irishness and the influence of these restaurants came together.  Oysters and Guinness bread were on the menu, but it wasn’t the dishes themselves but the lack of fussiness that got me.…