Fresh Magazine November 2006


Fresh Magazine November 2006
How do you judge how good a cook magazine is? At first glance, the three main ones in the UK (Olive, Delicious and Fresh) all look the same - glossy, enticing photographs, seasonal recipes and a sprinkling of a well-known chef or two. In the case of Fresh, the names of Jamie Oliver and Antony Worrall Thompson bedeck the front page.But once you have brought the magazine home and start perusing the recipes in-depth, isn’t the quality equal to the number of dishes you really want to try and replicate? In the case of this months Fresh, I’m sorry but 6 ‘imaginative recipes using baked beans’ doesn’t really do it for me.

Of course there are plenty more - seasonally Jerusalem Artichoke Soup, Chicory Tarte Tatin, Pot Roasted Pheasant with Cider and Calvados (aaah, that’s better!) and Butter-Fried Mussels with Turkish Tarator Sauce are a few of Mr. Thompson’s suggestions. (Tarator Sauce? A blitz of pine nuts, stale bread, garlic plus lemon juice and olive oil.)

A rather good Goat’s Cheese Salad was my starter at the London Bridge Brasserie the other day (details on SpittoonExtra). Mine was bedecked with a tomato black olive vinaigrette, but kicking off a Winter Salad section in fresh is a recipe for Hot Peppered Goat’s Cheese with Fresh Cranberry and Orange Dressing - cranberries, oranges, blackcurrant and cranberry cordial - sounds really enticing. As does the Clove-Grilled Mandarins with Stilton Salad!

Christmas is, of course, rapidly approaching. So fresh magazine suggests getting that ‘Classic Boozy Mincemeat’ going with full instructions. Can I be bothered to make mincemeat�

I had great success earlier in the year with a small group of friends interfering (aka lending-a-hand) with various Wagamama dishes; reminding me how little I make Oriental dishes at home. So maybe the Lemon-grass Fishcake Skewers with Lime-Spiked Mayonnaise or the Lahb Gkai (Chicken, Lemongrass and Mint Salad) recipes in Fresh will tempt me to experiment more.

If you are tempted to take out a subscription (www.subscription.co.uk/fresh/p008) to Fresh (I am, but find Olive slightly ahead in terms of inspiring recipes) then the six wines they are giving away might just tempt you to part with £40 for a 12 issues. The wines are 3 Pinnacle Semillon Sauvignon Blancs and 3 Pinnacle Shiraz from Palandri, a good Australian producer and the main sponsor of Fresh.

Talking of wine - the drink content in Fresh is rather good. Over on Wine Sediments I have posted about the wines they recommend in this issue and of the various food matches they recommend.

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Comment Number:
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Written by:
Gladys Jeapes
Posted on:
December 28, 2006 at 2:55 pm

Has fresh gone out of business I am not getting my magazines that I subscribed to and the phone number is unavailable

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2
Written by:
Andrew Barrow
Posted on:
December 29, 2006 at 2:49 pm

I havent seen it in the shops recently… the website is still up and running though
http://www.livingfresh.co.uk/

I’ll see what I can find out.

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Written by:
Marie Turner
Posted on:
December 31, 2006 at 10:53 am

I am not able to get Fresh magazine where I live either and am also wondering if it is still being printed - hope so.

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Written by:
jo
Posted on:
January 7, 2007 at 9:22 pm

I was just looking at their website trying to find out why i can’t get it anymore. When i pressed on subscribe it says ‘magazine no longer available’. So i am guessing they must have gone out of business. Shame. It was a good mag.

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Written by:
Lyn Scollick
Posted on:
January 11, 2007 at 1:55 am

I bought a subscription to fresh in June last year and they didn’t send any magazines - still trying to get my money back. They have now been sold to Trojan Publishing.

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Written by:
jes
Posted on:
January 21, 2007 at 5:39 pm

sad that the magazine is no longer. sadder still that i was unable to gain the last issue due to living in the US. do any of you have a copy to spare that you would not mind selling/giving away? contact me please.

thank you.

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Written by:
Lyn
Posted on:
January 23, 2007 at 2:05 pm

 ’fresh’ magazine stole my subscription money - ‘delicious’ magazine deliver every month.

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Written by:
Anne Lambert
Posted on:
February 7, 2007 at 3:20 pm

Here is an extract of an email received by Fresh customer service on 18/01/07:

Fresh magazine is currently being transferred to new owners.
Unfortunately during this transition period we are unable to access any information.
I can however confirm the next available edition is Issue 18 which is on-sale on 31.01.07.

I do not live in the UK and cannot check. Has anybody seen it recently in the shops?

Comment Number:
9
Written by:
Andrew Barrow
Posted on:
February 7, 2007 at 7:40 pm

I have just brought the most recent issue and will be reviewing it shortly - so the magazines hasn’t closed. Hurrah!

Comment Number:
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Written by:
Anne Lambert
Posted on:
February 15, 2007 at 12:09 pm

Thanks Andrew!
I have few doubts that the magazine will be as good as before. I just wish they would contact their old subscribers and try to make nice!!

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Written by:
Lyn
Posted on:
August 7, 2007 at 9:43 am

Type your comment here. Trojan, the new owners of Fresh, have agreed to send a year’s subscription to the person I bought the 2006 subscription for. Good on them for making good on the previous owner’s commitments. I saw the magazine when in UK in June, and it is still very good.