I love to cook. I'm half-Irish, and suspect that my never ending desire to show those I care about that I love them through food comes from that heritage. That's the nature side, but nurture suggests my way of doing this is due to my love for the life and love attitude of Italy. There are a lot of similarities and the best bit is that it all boils down to good food from good produce, cooked well and served with love. I'm currently unthinkably happy with Mr Rarr, but before I dated a very lovely chap who obviously enjoyed this approach to food and very sweetly bought me a subscription to Olive magazine so that I could get more inspiration (God knows I struggle ...  Read the complete review

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

***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

I get this magazine through subscription for just under 30 quid a year and personally I think it is the best food magazine on the market, I also subscribe to Good Food and think Olive is much more interesting in its content, design and attitude. The magazine presents itself in a funky modern way, with glossy front cover and generally a supplement, recent ones have included top 50 recipes and italian food booklets which are small and very handy in the kitchen. The magazine has a standard content with a letters page, then news on food issues around the UK, there is then a content of 7 days food for under 35quid which throws up some awesome and ...  Read the complete review