Chicken wing recipes that are full of flavour, texture and life

Getting young adults to cook sometimes means untying the apron strings and letting them fend for themselves, says Valerie O’Connor.

You know you’re old when... no it’s not the obvious realisations of saggy things, but when you look at teenage girls and sigh with falling shoulders at how gorgeous they would be if they didn’t wear all that stuff on their faces/heads/bodies.

I used to nod at my mother’s auto-rewind of “Would you not leave yourself alone”, as I slathered on my pink and blue eyeliner for school mid-spraying my back-combed hair with half a can of cement-hold hairspray and swaggering off out the door in a school skirt so tight you could see the pattern on my underwear through it.