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Floral fancy for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show

If you’re not visiting London’s botanical spectacular, embrace the spirit at home with these beauties.

Have your voice heard!

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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

FLAVOUR AT YOUR FINGERTIPS!

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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.

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

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

PLOTTING the menu

Seasonal and local have long been buzzwords on menus, with chefs indicating quality through provenance. Recently though, the distance between kitchen and farm has been closing. Emily Gussin talks to the chefs getting their hands dirty

“We want everyone to feel EXTRAORDINARY”

The Mazi Project in Bristol uses the power of food to fuel young people’s futures – and show them compassion that’s life-changing

DON’T MISS JUNE’S SPANISH SPECIAL

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Eat and drink COPENHAGEN

Denmark’s capital is home to the ‘best chef in the world’ and 15 Michelin-starred restaurants. Bakeries are everywhere, cakes are a local religion and these perennially stylish people have even redesigned the hotdog. Expat food and travel writer Laura Hall recommends the best treats, from high-end to humble

PUZZLES PAGE

Test your food knowledge for a chance to WIN with Hugh Thompson’s culinary crossword

RECIPE INDEX

May

Here’s to local restaurants!

Neighbourhood eateries are the lifeblood of our communities, says chef Dara Klein – but harsh economic policies, combined with unrealistic expectations fuelled by social media, are putting them in peril

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

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 fruit, acidity and sugar, the new generation of artisan British ciders make a brilliant addition to your kitchen, as the delicious. food team’s Emily Gussin proves with these orchard-fragrant recipes. Plus, bottles for sipping alongside

Grab a spoon!

There’s something joyful about the shared experience of tucking into a supersize dessert along with a crowd of other guests. These four genius recipes from the delicious. food team are guaranteed to finish off a feast in style

Be a Better Cook

Increase your knowledge with the experts. This month: the versatile art of steaming (ever tried steamed sweet potatoes?), restaurant-level poached salmon with Adam Byatt and trad-versus-twist Cornish pasties

Adam Byatt’s Michelin-level cookery course

THIS MONTH: POACHING FISH

Picking up STEAM

BE A BETTER COOK

Trad vs twist

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Elevated everyday

Midweek must-tries from Martha Collison, a festival of fragrant elderflower, and bakes from up and down the UK. Plus: big-flavoursmall-effort Indian dinners and all things green from the garden

Martha’s midweek saviours

Former GBBO star Martha Collison has a midweek ethos that chimes beautifully with the delicious. way of doing things: quick, easy and fantastically flavoursome

Flavour SENSATION

It’s not just the great taste that strikes you about these recipes from Mehak Kansal, owner of the Bindas Eatery restaurants – it’s how simple they are to prepare. Now you can have fabulous Indian food every day of the week

Great BRITISH BAKES

May’s long weekends are a dream opportunity to scratch your baking itch – and these simple-but-satisfying classics from Anna Higham are perfect for speedy gratification

In my TRUG

Fair weather veg growers, unite! It’s time to celebrate with our seasonal superstar Kathy Slack as she brings out sweet peas, tender spinach and tricksy (but undeniably wonderful) asparagus

flower POWER

Its delicate beauty is short-lived so capture the magic of elderflower in these tempting recipes: a zingy cake, a summery pickle, a refreshing drink and a fragrant tart