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                 Best In Season: August
Traditionally the holiday month, August also sees the beginning of the fresh game and shooting seasons. As with July, eating in the open air is common practice. This a fantastic month for both salad vegetables and fruit salads, and that abundance of quality foods make both crudités and preserving a must.
Vegetables in season are: aubergines, beetroot, broccoli, cabbages, carrots, courgettes, cucumbers, fennel, garlic, green beans, kohlrabi, leeks, lettuce, mangetout, marrows, okra, onions, parsnips, peppers, potatoes, radishes, sweet corn and tomatoes.

Seafood’s in season are: Dover sole, grey mullet, haddock, halibut, herring, lobster, pilchards, plaice, prawns, red mullet, salmon, sardines, sea bass, sea bream, shrimps, squid and turbot.

Fruits in season are: apricots, Asian pears, bilberries, blackberries, blackcurrants, blueberries, cherries, gooseberries, grapes, loganberries, mangos, melons, nectarines, peaches, plumbs, raspberries, redcurrants and strawberries.

Meats in season are: duck, grouse, guinea fowl, quail and rabbit.