Delicious UK

An award-winning magazine, delicious. features 50-plus triple-tested, foolproof recipes and astounding complementary editorial and photography every month.

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Floral fancy for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Have your voice heard!

Tom Parker Bowles spills the beans • He may be an award-winning food writer and restaurant critic but Mr Parker Bowles will cheerfully confess to loving processed cheese. Just don't get him started on pollock… We chat as he celebrates the re-release of his 2012 cookbook Let's Eat – which contains, among other gems, the recipe for his mother Queen Camilla's roast chicken

NUGGETS • Choice bits of knowledge, food news and seasonal inspiration. Compiled by Anthony Noonan

DID THE ROMANS INVENT THE BURGER?

FOODIE READ OF THE MONTH • I've been anticipating this book from the moment “Chinese food cheerleader” Jenny Lau announced it last year. Don't expect a glossary of Chinese cookery terms – and as the subtitle warns, there are no recipes.

THE MINDFUL COOK • Our sustainability guru Emily Gussin is excited about an exhibition that imagines what we'll be eating in 2050

FAIR PLAY

HAMBLEDON VINEYARD • Wine-fancying editorial assistant Anthony Noonan enjoys a grape-enhanced day out in Hampshire

BACK TO SCHOOL • Down in Suffolk, delicious. publishing director Jake Hopkins tests a couple of workshops at the celebrated Pump Street Bakery

PEPPERY PLEASURES

Over to you…

MEET THE READER • Ashleigh Houlden of Northamptonshire lives with her husband, two children and ‘foster cats’

delicious. DISCOVERIES • A selection of the best new bites, exciting ingredients and kitchen kit from producers big and small, as tasted and tested by the delicious. team.

MINDFULLY MOREISH • Our sustainability star Emily Gussin chooses her favourite things from a new initiative by sailor-turnedeco-warrior Ellen MacArthur. The Big Food Redesign Challenge aims to develop products with the health of our environment in mind

The booklist • The best cookbooks communicate passion through the pages and Mark Diacono's picks do just that, whether about Italian lemons, Eastern European traditions or mixed-heritage cooking

Make it special • Go all-out with a bank hol brunch, celebrate UK winemaking, discover the magic of cider in your cooking and gather the gang for humongous sharing puds. Plus: make Rosie Mackean's retro menu with this clotted cream cheesecake to finish

Brunch time • May's duo of bank holiday weekends, not to mention the half term break, lend themselves to a leisurely brunch at some point. Choose one of these crowd-pleasing creations for your mid-morning centrepiece

Easy living • This nostalgic British-themed menu from entertaining expert Rosie Mackean has a fancy-buteasy starter, a pub-grub classic main and a crowdpleaser pud – and you can prep it all in advance

Rosie's get ahead plan • I believe you should be doing minimal cooking while your friends are in your home. Restaurant chefs prep or cook nearly everything before service to make things easier, and so should you. Here's a plan so you can prep ahead and have a good time on the day.

A strong cuppa with… BEVERLEY KNIGHT • Wolverhampton's most celebrated daughter, soul queen Beverley is busy with summer festival performances and a stage role as Rosetta Tharpe, ‘the original soul sister’. She finds time to chat with us about jerk and curry goat, the healing power of liquorice and her very un-rock-'n’-roll rider

A very British revolution • With English and Welsh Wine Weeks coming up, expert Rebecca Pitcairn celebrates the explosion in UK winemaking over the last few decades. Plus: a new non-alc beer and after-dinner sipper

A splash OF CIDER • With a gorgeous balance of...