Everyone's a Food Lover

Our plan with the brand new Bridgestone Food Lover's Guides ­ The Traveller's Guide and The Shopper's Guide ­ was simple: to give the reader all the information they need, and absolutely no more, and to present the information in a funky way. It sounds easy, but in fact the two books have taken 12 months work, and a lot of to-ing and fro-ing with our design team, before we had something we liked.

Our thanks are due not just to Nick Cann, our designer, but also to Aoife Wasser, our illustrator, and to Elizabeth Field, Orla Broderick and Caroline Workman, our contributing editors.

We hope that you will find lots of gems packed into the pages of the two books ­ tips on where to find the best bacon, the best bread, where to chill out in County Clare; who are the best wine merchants; the cutting-edge cooks, and just who exactly are our food revolutionaries! Anything good and great and delicious and hospitable which we could discover is in here.

In the ten years since we teamed up with Bridgestone tyres, our food culture has been revolutionised. Today, we care about what we eat, what we buy, where we shop, what we drink: we are all food lovers. The result of our fussiness has been the creation of a food culture the equal of almost any in the world. If you choose well ­ and we hope the Bridgestone Food Lover's Guides will be vital tools in helping you to choose well ­ then you will enjoy something unique and special. We have had a great time writing them, and we hope you have a great time using them. Order the Bridgestone Food Lovers Guides ­ The Traveller's Guide and The Shopper's Guide ­ online now!

And check out Megabytes every month for any news about changes with the Food Lover's Guides in our Stay Tuned section