Greeting Food Lovers, and welcome to summer's Megabytes!

And here it all is: How to build a kitchen! How to lose weight! Indian food-to-go! Spicy food to cook! Ice-cold vodka to slurp! Wine menus! A gallery of fascinating letters! The talk talk and the reality! A groovy competition! A whole lot of exclamation marks! (that's enough exclamation marks. Move along please. ed.)

So. Who invented onion marmalade, or sauce viege? Michel Guérard, that's who. And in this issue Leslie Williams - who would rather run bread under a tap than use a product such as Low Low - lost over 10lbs following his classic 'diet book' Cuisine Minceur. John McKenna looks at this and another French classic cookbook from the same period: Cuisine Niçoise.

As another Irish artisan food product bites the dust, we wonder is anyone listening to the pleas to protect them.

If we had a euro for each time someone asked us for info about our kitchen article, written for the Irish Times in 1998, well, we'd have made enough money to have paid it all off by now! Rather than talk about it any more, we've reprinted the article, in the hope it may still be useful to anyone planning to create a kitchen from scratch.

Otherwise we've got a great summer recipe for now-you-see-it-soon-you-won't - salmon, details of a new drink to store in your freezer, and another great competition - dinner for two in Poppadom. Here comes the summer!

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