Just when we all think winter is on the way out after the winter solstice it hits us with a vengeance – rainy days and chilly nights – just right for fireside food. TV dinners were the rage in the early 70s. In this issue, Callie Maritz and Mari-Louise Guy bring us food on a tray to delight builders and ballerinas. Snuggle up in front of the TV this winter, in style.

Find out how to make your own ricotta, about backyard beekeeping, about the trials and tribulations of a bunch of engineers cooking up a birthday feast using molecular gastronomy, where to find the best coffees across the country, what training for the Culinary Olympics entails and how to cook pig’s ears, rabbit and liver with Andy Fenner and Pete Goffe-Wood.

Enjoy the 21^st issue of Crush! – stay warm, stay cool and keep on eating and drinking!