Posted by kathryn in Spring and An Honest Kitchen

Last week I had the pleasure of actually spending time with Lucy. While we work together closely on An Honest Kitchen, I could count on one hand the number of times we’ve actually seen each other face-to-face.

An evening and a morning spent together, catching up and talking about food, gave us the time and space to talk about An Honest Kitchen.

What’s happened to Spring?

Those of you in Australia will have noticed we are in the latter stages of Spring. Summer is around the corner, snapping at spring’s heels – and yet we haven’t released our Spring Edition.

Given An Honest Kitchen is all about food and honesty. That our purpose is to produce something entertaining, useful and gorgeous which is also truthful about food and cooking – it’s important we extend that honesty to you, our readers.

Our Spring Edition is nearly there, but it’s just not quite ready. Lucy and I have needed (and taken) holidays, we’ve both had other work. Life has intruded. All of which has extended the process of producing the next magazine.

Therefore, given the proximity of summer, we’ve decided to delay the release of our Spring Edition and instead publish one bumper Spring & Summer magazine. This means you’ll get all the wonderful, warm weather foods together in one edition.

Winter for Northern hemisphere readers

Plus next month we’ll be re-releasing the Winter edition, revised for our Northern hemisphere readers. We’ll be updating terminology, measurements and ingredients, bringing it in line with your winter.

And 2010?

We also have some cracking plans for 2010. We’ll be doing an Autumn edition, to complete the year of seasons. But then we’re going to extend the concept, to centre each magazine around specific themes.

Leaving you with some Spring

In the meantime, if you’re after spring recipes right now, then take a look at these two Nigel Slater columns where he makes a spring laksa and cooks a great roast chook with young garlic.

We’ll let you know more as the plans unfold.

11 November, 2009