From a traditional spring feast of roasted lamb and a fashionable French pastry to an entire section devoted to cooking Asian, we brought new methods and new flavours together and were reminded again, that the right ingredients really do make all the difference.

Inspired by a book I read during our winter holiday, The Gospel According to Coco Chanel. A fabulous read, I couldn't put it down. After all her glamorous accomplishments and life experiences she came to this. What if you had everything you wanted and still weren't happy... what would happen then. This really stayed with me.

After that, grateful seemed fitting for the title of our latest issue. And we found just the right accompanying quote. Gratitude turns what we have into enough. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.