BBC Olive Magazine

Olive Magazine is a monthly publication from the BBC. It is a magazine based entirely around food and drink. The magazine is released on the 5th of each month, it costs £3.30 for each issue, although you can get a years subscription with £9.50 of Tesco Clubcard Vouchers, or can subscribe online for 6 issues at £1 for each issue. The magazine is glossy and looks fantastic with excellent photographs of food and drink throughout, there are well over 250 pages and while many of these are adverts, all are relevant to people like myself who just love food and drink. The format is similar every month but the menus and contributions aren't which keeps ...  Read the complete review

I love to cook and I love to eat out, both hobbies that have been growing in the last couple of years buoyed by several rather attractive and charismatic celebrity chefs and in my case being forced to fend for myself. I like my magazines to be a little challenging and whilst avoiding the drivel about what Jordon and Peter did next found Olive. At £3.30 it isn't cheap but you can find ways round this like by using your Tesco vouchers and it does become cheaper if you subscribe (25% cheaper). For a cookery magazine it has a pleasing diversity with some challenging articles that force you to examine about where your food really comes from, how to utilise ...  Read the complete review

Olive Magazine is ideal for anyone interested in food and cooking. It provides inspiration for new recipes, as well as a range of articles on various cooking techniques, ingredients etc. There are usually a range of articles by or about celebrity chefs, and there's a whole section dedicated to restaurant reviews, or articles about foodie holidays/travelling. One of my favourite features involves a suggested recipe or ingredient for each day of the month - these fit in really well with the season (eg June 2009 has a suggestion for making Hash Browns on Father's Day, May 2009 had blueberry pancakes for bank holiday weekend!) and are a nice source of fresh ...  Read the complete review

***BBC Olive Magazine*** I recently subscribed to a few magazines on the BBC 3 for £1 trial offer to see if any of them would give me inspiration in the cooking department. Olive was one of the magazines that I gave a try, which is issued monthly. ***What's it like?*** Well the cover price is 10p more than Good Food at £3.40 for what looks like a very similar magazine. The issue that I am reviewing is that of June and it is available in the newsagents during the first week of the month. It is a glossy quality magazine and has around 130 pages. This month there is a focus on British Food. The main ...  Read the complete review

Olive magazine is a BBC production, its always printed on high quality paper with a glossy frontage. Although the pictures do alter month to month they are always tempting and draw your eye. In the summer they tend to be more colourful thus reflecting the season, in the autumn they tend to be darker with pictures of real comfort food again though it always looks tempting. It is priced at £3.40 per issue available once a month. It is always a month ahead ie Mays issue is available in April and so forth. I find this very very handy as you can plan ahead especially if you like to stay in season with the produce you use. It also helps with meal planning, if you like to ...  Read the complete review