Country Life 29 December 2021

Country Life 29 December 2021 takes an in-depth look at why and how we should eat seasonal food throughout the year, for the good of our bodies, our wallets and our planet. But mostly for our tastebuds.

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Taste the seasons

From pheasant in January to wild garlic in April and asparagus in May, broad beans in July to sloes in October and goose in December, eating seasonally holds a particular delight. Tom Parker Bowles takes us through the year and offers a mouth-watering recipe for each month

Zeb Soanes’s favourite painting

The BBC Radio 4 newsreader chooses a radiant portrait

Masterpiece

Irreverent, funny, moving and endlessly quotable, Withnail and I is a classic, avers Jack Watkins

Talking about a resolution

If you rue your inability to keep New Year’s Resolutions, fear not, you are in good company, with Pepys, Woolf and even Dr Johnson, reveals Felicity Day

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