What's in Season?

In his monthly guide, chef guides you through what is in season, what ingredients to look out for and how to make the most of them each month.

January

Probably the best time to start a new series on what is in season each month is to start at the begi...

February

If I was ever under the impression that January was a difficult month to write about then February i...

March

March is a month of promise heralding as it does the start of spring, with the guarantee of summer n...

April

April and with it comes spring, although when one considers the mildness of the winters we seem to h...

May

May is a month of promise, tantalizingly close to abundant crops of spring vegetables but in most ye...

June

This month should therefore be christened the month of the green vegetable, as all green vegetables ...

July

Eating fresh fruit and vegetables is one of the few pleasures that we all take for granted and look ...

August

August is a bit of a strange month really, in the middle of the year with normally glorious weather,...

September

I imagine that for many September can be a bit of gloomy month, heralding as it does the onset of th...

October

Although I don’t wish to be the harbinger of bad news I am bound to say that not only is October one...

November

November and the landscape is starting to take on that familiar and bleak look of winter again, the ...

December

Well, here we are, the end of another year, the calendar has come full circle, we’ve seen everything...