1. Relax and enjoy a night at The Grove

REASSURINGLY expensive is how one Crowthorne bar and restaurant may like to be described.

2. Dishes to Thai for

DON’T you just love Singha beer? I needed it after working my way through the gang mussaman lamb curry, that spicy little number which cries out for liquid refreshment.

3. Jamie at Home (E)

Over the last few years, Jamie Oliver has been spending most of his spare time at home, growing things in his garden and becoming totally inspired to cook with all his own produce.

4. Also in February's Food Monthly

5. Disney Pixar’s animation cooks up a real treat

Remy is a rat living close to Paris. When he – and his rat siblings – are discovered by the owner of the house they live in they have to flee to avoid being killed.

6. Not easy being confident in the kitchen

ALL cooks know how hard it is being confident in the kitchen. Even though you’ve made a dish a hundred times disaster can always strike.

7. Bread of Heaven

I had for many years worried that the art of bread making was dying out, and in no time the only thing left would be supermarket fodder.

8. The young Master

IT is after a sturdy three courses, as we pour over a history book of Cliveden in its grand library, that the newly appointed chef at Waldo’s appears.

9. Emmbrook is open for breakfasts too

THE Emmbrook Inn in Emmbrook Road is a pub with a difference.

10. Who needs meat?

VEGETARIAN curry? That’s not very Indian. I want lamb and chicken – and plenty of it.