Shh! The suburban secret is out. And these swingers have no shame

As evening approaches, perfectly respectable neighbourhoods across the country become a hive of activity. Passions will be indulged, secrets will be shared, and a lot of shameless swapping will be going on.

All sounds like a 1970s car-keys-in-a-bowl type event doesn't it, but rest assured, there's not a pampas grass in sight. As delicious. magazine reveals this month, the passion is for food and good company, the secrets are cooking tips and the only things being swapped are chairs, crockery and recipes.

Meet the new swingers - groups of friends and neighbours eating together without the fuss and formality of a traditional dinner party and where everyone brings something to the table. In this month's delicious. magazine, we meet a group of neighbours from south London who have taken the 'bring a dish' idea a step further and turned it into a street supper safari.

Starting at one house for cocktails, moving to another for starter, and then progressing on for main course, pudding and so on, bringing chairs, cutlery and crockery as required, this could be the future face of dinner parties.

Karen Barnes, editor of delicious. magazine, is available to talk about and advise your listeners on their safari suppers.

· Are you part of a supper club? How did you get started?

· Did your jubilee street party inspire you to get to know your neighbours better?

· What sort of dishes work well on a safari supper?

As the south London group told delicious. magazine, a meal shared with friends simply tastes better - and we couldn't agree more.

Save our Food Heritage!

delicious. magazine launches campaign
to rescue the UK's at-risk regional recipes

Imagine Britain without Cornish pasties or Eccles cakes.While they're unlikely to die out any time soon, there are many regional classics fading into the archives, and delicious. magazine is on a mission to save them - one recipe at a time.

The magazine launched its new campaign, Save Our Food Heritage, at the Exeter Food & Drink Festival, where food editor Lizzie Kamenetzky cooked West Country apple dappy and former MasterChef winner Dhruv Baker whisked up a bacon and egg pie - both dishes that are facing extinction. You can catch a video of them creating their recipes on the delicious. website:

deliciousmagazine.co.uk/heritagerecipe

Meanwhile, in the magazine's August issue, the first recipe to be highlighted is ripe tart, from Sussex, which is named after the place it originated from - the tiny village of Ripe in the South Downs - and not the cherries it's filled with.

Would you like to be a recipe saviour? Nominate your favourite regional dishes, no matter how obscure, on twitter via @deliciousmag.co.uk or by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

An Olympian Task

delicious. Magazine reveals how the London 2012 Olympics is actually the biggest food festival on Earth!

With a guest list running to millions, and literally every type of dietary requirement catered for, planning the catering, cleaning and waste for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is a monumental task. This month, in delicious. Magazine, Jan Matthews explains just what it takes to head up the biggest peacetime catering operation the world has ever seen!

With a brief to provide great and affordable food that represents Britain at its best, Jan's team spent four months last summer tasting every dish on the menu, and with 5,000 menus just for the spectators, there were more than a few straining waistbands!

Every detail has been considered, from Freedom Food Certified chicken to Fairtrade tea and coffee and organic milk. There are provisions for halal and kosher food, vegetarian and gluten-free - plus as it is Ramadan during the Games, fasting packs will be available for athletes.

And it's not just what participants eat, but where they eat it. The main dining tent in the Athlete's Village is big enough to hold 880 double decker buses - seating 4,500 athletes at a time and feeding 65,000 people. And there's the clear-up to organise - and incredibly nothing will be heading to landfill.

Over 14 million meals will be served during the Games and the shopping list includes 25,000 loaves of bread - but without poppy seeds, as they can give a positive reading for opiates!

But it's not all mass catering. At the other end of the scale is Café Mor, a tiny beach shack run by the winner of last year's British Street Food Awards, serving Pembrokeshire laverbread and foraged-style seafood. There will be cuisine available from virtually every competing nation, so a visit to the Games will be a food lovers dream!