Gardener Cook

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ISBN 10: 0711211183 / ISBN 13: 9780711211186

Published by -, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gardener Cook
• Publisher: -
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0711211183
• ISBN 13: 9780711211186
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Sooley, Howard
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The gardener-writer Christopher Lloyd reveals his second passion

for home-grown food which he prepares in his kitchen at Great Dixter, his home in East Sussex. In this book, he presents the cultivating of fruit and vegetables, and intersperses useful advice on growing organic food, with a collection of his favourite recipes. There are over 60 types of fruit, vegetables, salad ingredients and herbs included, grown for flavour rather than size or fashion.

Christopher Lloyd is the author of "The Well-Tempered Garden", "The Adventurous Gardener" and "In My Garden".

Review

Christopher Lloyd, the great British garden writer, lives at Great Dixter, which, thanks to him, is something of a gardener's Mount Olympus. Now Lloyd reveals that the kitchen garden at Great Dixter is as much a part of his daily life as the flowerbeds. Gardener Cook is a cookbook for the passionate vegetable gardener, with sturdy, simple recipes, many borrowed from one of British cuisine's luminaries, Jane Grigson. The beautiful photographs are all of vegetables in their natural state, either growing or just-picked; Lloyd says, in an aside, "I hate those books that have glamorously laid out meals in violently coloured illustrations, which entirely put me off the product." There's no putting us off the product in Gardener Cook. Lloyd writes so charmingly even of unpopular vegetables as the beet and parsnip that the reader will feel an intense desire to serve "Beets Baked with Cream and Parmesan Cheese" at dinner parties. The quantities in each recipe are thoroughly Americanized, though some of the ingredients, such as partridges, may seem exotic to those not able to avail themselves of a fairly sophisticated supermarket. The gregarious Lloyd is scrupulous about giving the number of servings for each recipe, and one suspects that he never underestimates how much one person can eat. --Barrie Trinkle