Hello to the winter issue of SPICE - the screed on feed, the tome on pome, the beat on meat, the journal on kernels; focalising on localising, writing on biting, looking at cooking, illuminating ruminating; less British than Delicious, less monthly than The Monthly, less dead than the Bulletin, and less Princess Mary than anyone.

Fantastic stuff to get you through winter: Marg Johnson's multivariate - they lemon, they lime, they coconut; donuts by Balthazar - but first you have to eat your Jamie Morgan braised abalone with soba noodles and beef fillet with mushroom croquette; Jude Blereau shops well, early and often; Verity James finds that oranges are not the only [citrus] fruit; Vince Garreffa convinces us that a complete bone-in beef blade cut is a great idea; knives are made like puff pastry; cows get the lazy susan treatment; abalone are looked behind; food miles are countered; the wines of the Frankland Valley are explored; chefs are followed to the Great Southern and much more in all that's tasty, clever and good here. Look for it with the Sports Dietitian and the Docker's arm on the cover.

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