This may be a short, mean little summer, but that is not going to stop us celebrating. We have gathered our friends together to make the best of it with a collection of picnic food, lashings of ice cream and a few bottles of the most beautiful rosé we can find. Ravinder Bhogal, Honey Spencer and Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich from Honey and Co have put their heads together to find the best food to eat outdoors. Wherever you might be spending the summer, let us point you in the direction of some god things to eat.
Danny Wallace has been busy in his greenhouse and has written a beautiful story of love and loss. He tells us of the rise and fall of his beloved glasshouse.
No summer lunch would be complete without a bottle of something chilled, and we have a whole host of suggestions for you, with twenty wines for summer.
To while away a summer afternoon, Fern Brady shows us her life on a plate and we take a long and leisurely lunch with Asma Khan.
Jay Rayner isn’t feeling the Olympics and is suggesting that the event goes back to its roots, with a few more cultural categories. He is suggesting an Olympic food competition. Not a cooking Olympics – there is more than enough competitive cooking around already – but one that involves eating. I rather fancy his idea of the long lunch mixed doubles.