We’re the new tastemakers: we should all be drinking (and eating) to that.

Spring brings purple-sprouting broccoli, wild garlic and the star of the month, leeks. Plus: two delicious recipes using leeks

Become a creator not just a consumer in the artisan chocolate boom, with a chocolate-making course at foodie HQ

The increasingly popular hare and rabbit are in season, along with oysters, scallops, mussels and mackerel, writes Elaine Lemm

It’s time for oven-roasted root vegetables, chunky soups, cabbages, kale and seafood, writes Elaine Lemm. Plus: marmalade recipe

For those of even modest wealth and taste, it seems 2014 is the year of cognac, and it’s generation high50 that is being rightly courted

Quince (ooh!), sprouts (eww), monkfish, lobster, satsumas, parsnips and more: the season’s larder, plus two hearty winter recipes

From tours and tastings to cocktails and couture, we look at the latest cocoa-based innovations in the UK and beyond.

Delicious autumn foods include damsons and pears, oysters and mackerel, colourful knobbly squash, and wild mushrooms