Welcome to October

When it comes to understanding how you like to eat, BBC Good Food knows the score. Why? Because you tell us, in emails and calls, commenting under recipes on bbcgoodfood.com, in Facebook Together discussions and on Instagram – our community is a constant source of inspiration. As Britain’s biggest food media brand, we never take our number-one status for granted, so we also invest in wider research to spot new patterns and trends and plan content ideas. This year’s Good Food Nation survey, in which we spoke to 3,000 nationally representative people, revealed how children are keen to do more cooking, but lack the skills. Read Keith Kendrick’s report on page 54 and watch this space for a new series in which we’ll skill-up the new generation.

Family time in the kitchen can be bonding, as we discover in our new feature on page 58, where mother and daughter Julie and Lexie tell writer Punteha van Terheyden how cooking inspired Lexie’s website (lexiecooks.

com) and created a shared dream of running a café. See you next issue, our bumper Christmas edition, out 28 October with a bonus 2022 recipe calendar.