Helen Hokin's October Picks

We follow recent landees Obama and Tom Cruise to the fabulous new Hotel Verta, billed as London's Gateway, at the London Heliport. Arriving by helicopter is de rigeur and so is dinner at Patrisey inside. Locally sourced ingredients - yes we got that already - but honey from Battersea? Who knew. Meanwhile over at The Sheraton, Heathrow there are whispers of a jetlag defying menu devised with sleep in mind by chef  Enzo Pepe, including oriental green fingers, asparagus spring rolls and a smokey garden salad that all sounds as light as the goose feather and down pillows that follow.
News in this time from Glasgow where The Corinthian, the old city stalwart, has undergone a makeover. Craig Brown sits down to dinner in a clamshell canopy 'that allowed me to practice my James Bond villain impressions'.
Foodtrippers Preferred Partners have a whole harvest of hands on food and drink fun for autumn
How about this - learn to bake 'Real Bread' on a Scottish smallholding with Andrew Whitley- one of the original pioneers of the cause.
Singapore anyone? - Samia Ahad's school offers a programme of half-day classes in a mind-blowing range of Asian and European cuisines.
Fancy foraging? With the team of in-house artisans in a fully-equipped tithe barn on the Southrop Manor Estate, then collpase in the estate's own pub.
The Food Network South Beach Food and Wine Festival Cookbook, by Lee Shrager, is bursting with recipes from North America's finest chefs. And we have copies to give away. Just enter our simple quiz to be in the running. There's still time to catch 'Foodtripper Miami' the full-length show featuring the gargantuan menu at Danny De Vito's Chophouse, a peek behind the scenes at Azul, Florida's hottest dinner ticket oh and aCuban  picnic on the beach, on Travel Channel on Sky 251 all this month.