The summer is finally here! Celebrate this glorious season with a feast of the most tempting strawberry puds, alfresco eats and English asparagus dishes – all packed into the May issue of Great British Food!
With a trio of decadent bakes from the Great British Bake Off team, Mary Berry's simple step-by-step guide to jointing a chicken and a host of zingy weeknight dinners from Rachel Allen, you certainly won't be short of foodie inspiration this month!
We chat to acclaimed seafood chef Nathan Outlaw about learning the ropes from Rick Stein, fish fingers and the finest Cornish produce, find out about the fascinating world of goat farming, while Irish charmer Richard Corrigan tells us why mackerel is his favourite British fish. We also get the lowdown on the UK's most beautiful picnic spots and find out what the future has in store for the great British pub. Look out for our bumper two-page competitions page, with amazing foodie prizes worth almost £2000!
This month's issue also includes a free14-page 'British Meat' pull-out, featuring deliciously-different recipes that will convince you to experiment with all kinds of unusual cuts and flavour combinations. Check out our guide to buying, cooking and carving, as well as tips on the most fascinating rare breeds and which restaurants and farm shops to buy their meat from.
Great British Food Magazine
With top chefs clamouring to cook with local, seasonal and British produce and increasing numbers of small producers creating delicious regional food for everyone to enjoy, there has never been a better time to celebrate the revival of British food.
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At a time when national pride is at its greatest and with next year's Olympic Games and Diamond Jubilee to look forward to, there really has never been a better time to revel in the incredibly diverse and delicious delicacies served up across the British Isles. The revival of British food is in full swing and, with produce grown in the UK undergoing an incredible renaissance, there has been an explosion in the number of artisan producers, resurrected recipes, rescued heritage varieties and re-discovered specialities.
Launched in 2007, Great British Food magazine is still the only national consumer food magazine focussed 100% on British seasonal food and drink. Four years on its main objective it still to reacquaint home-cooks and consumers with the wonderful range of produce grown and made in Britain. In fact, Great British Food magazine has all the inspiration you need to celebrate food from our nation throughout the year. In each issue we scour the length and breadth of the British Isles to rediscover delicious British food recipes, regional specialities and uncover what our fantastic food producers are creating right on our doorsteps. We track down top chefs to tell us what they're cooking and seek out the best new ingredients for you to get your hands on, whether it be British white truffles, world-beating English sparking wine or Suffolk made chorizo, we'll be able to tell you where to find.
Every issue of Great British Food is chock full with both traditional and up-to-the-minute British food recipes, with ideas for easy suppers, quick family meals, fabulous British baking, celebration suppers and inspiration from the country's best-known chefs. We follow the seasons to the letter so don't expect to see a recipe asking for British asparagus in January, or a cry for swede in August, we want you to be able to shop and cook with British seasonal produce every day of the year and support your local farm shops, delis, butchers, grocers and farmers' markets to find the best produce for your table.
Our aim has always been to add weight to the current British food revival and educate the nation about the wonderful food produced in the UK. With that in mind, each edition celebrates the huge variety of food producers dotted throughout the UK, with interviews and profiles of all kinds of British food makers, ranging from cider makers in Berkshire, to vintners in Kent, dairy farmers in the West country, fishermen in Grimsby and bakers in Yorkshire. We want to tell you the stories behind the British food you eat everyday and how these hard-working producers are contributing to the great British food revival happening in the UK right now.
Alongside British food recipes, producer profiles and food stories are interviews with top chefs and industry experts. Since our launch four years ago we've featured interviews with the likes of The Hairy Bikers, Valentine Warner, Mark Hix, Richard Corrigan, Rick Stein and Clarrisa Dickson-Wright as well as beautiful recipes from their latest cookbooks or food campaigns.
So, whether you are keen to forage the great outdoors for morel mushrooms, go samphire picking on the marshes, dig up razor clams, dive for oysters or learn to make your own pork pies, we will be able to assist. Or if you simply want to buy your food (from a local supplier of course) and cook it, then our easy recipes will help you prepare a delicious British feast for any occasion.
If you're a devoted home cook who likes to support local producers and farmers then Great British Food magazine is a must-read.
