Welcome to March's Observer Food Monthly – The Guardian

Welcome to our 250th challenge! Much has occurred since that first journal, however we proceed to have a good time good consuming and all that goes hand in hand with it – the folks, locations and tales, the campaigners and superstars, the fishers and farmers, and those that quietly proceed to develop, harvest and work with nice meals.

We take a sneak peek inside the test kitchens of three very completely different meals companies, from the concepts manufacturing unit for a Michelin-starred chef within the Lake District and the check kitchen of the Ottolenghi empire to a household of taco-testing super-nerds in Wales.

David Williams factors us within the course of a few of his favorite under-rated wines resembling “a crisp, fresh, nutty, yeasty and salty match for seafood” from Sanlúcar and a deliciously steely, fruity excessive avenue riesling.

We have lunch with Simon Amstell, check out Annie Macmanus’s Life on a Plate and Jay Rayner mourns the unhappy departure of the melba toast and the cutlet frill.

For some this is likely to be their first Observer Food Monthly (and to them we are saying welcome); others could have been with us since that very first challenge (we actually can not thanks sufficient).

Whether you might be in your first or your 250th, we sincerely hope you’ll keep on having fun with us within the years to come back. Together we are able to proceed to have a good time the thrill of the desk.