Ingredients
Eating seasonally is crucial: for optimum flavour and nutritional benefits, always buy food, preferably produced in Britain, when it's at its ripest and, therefore, best (not to mention cheapest).

- Spend a bit of time looking through this archive of over 200 ingredients and we just know you'll learn something: with key facts on each ingredient, plus advice on buying, preparing and cooking, it's a treasure trove of food facts.

- Nothing beats the intensity of a Kentish strawberry in June, or Fenland celery that's had a frost on it… Find out what to eat month on month, from root veg and greens in January to asparagus and crab in May!