February is a funny old month. It is the month that in the UK can bring some
of the harshest winter weather, and I write this having travelled through a
fair bit of snow to get to work today. People are usually getting sick of
winter, but spring still seems a way off. That said, the days are
definitely getting longer, and towards the end of the month we sometimes get
the odd nice day that suggests that spring is maybe not so far away. It is a
similar story in terms of seasonal ingredients, at the start of the month we're
still looking at a lot of winter staples: roots and brassicas, and we wave
goodbye to most game birds for another season, but towards the end of the month
we start to see a few new things that hint of the approaching change of seasons.
