Start Reading Riverford Farm Cook Book: Tales From The Fields, Recipes From The Kitchen Composed By Guy Watson Accessible From Bound Copy

far, this book is a HUGE source of knowledge, . . especially when you get that alien vegetable in with all of the calabrese that's broccoli for you supermarket hunters,

I use it all the time, In fact, I found it so useful, I needed to send it ahead of myself when I moved so it would be at my destination when I arrived.

Shouldn't that really sum up my opinion

The recipes are delicious and healthful as well as simple, If you have allergies or sensitivities, it is very easy to substitute foods, It's also easy to spice them up if you like, Either way, everything I've made has been delicious,

The only reason it didn't get theth star is because the binding is a little on the weak side,

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This is a particularly lovely book because it talks about each vegetable/fruit in alphabetical order describing how to grow it and store it.
There's information about different varieties and just an enormous wealth of information that I would never have come across any other way, In addition to the information on the food, there's little snippets about a variety of other things,

The recipes are divided up, on the whole, according to the major ingredient and are presented after each item's entry, I was really excited to try a number of items in here and I finally have, The major excitement was the Chocolate Courgette Cake those are zucchinis for any Americans, My resident American tells me that it tastes slightly like Zucchini Bread apparently similar to Banana Bread, only with courgettes, The GuineaPig gave it a huge thumbs up, along with the rest of the dinner from this book,

This is a book I definitely recommend, As an archaeologist I object to organic farming because it requires you to dig up naturally formed phosphate, Not only is this far more expensive, it's in my opinion much worse for the earth than just making some phosphate in a lab, Besides, phosphate is made out of bone, so phosphate miners tend to dig straight through bonebeds, which just gets my scientific hackles up, So, I generally tend to ignore all the 'organic' this and that and just use whatever is available locally, I'm in favour of local produce, where possible and given that it's generally better for the environment, though there are exceptions, just not strictly organic food.
Organically farmed food that uses fertilisers that don't include organic phosphate is much more palatable to me, sadly wholesale mining is required for food to be labelled 'organic'.


Anyway, the point is not for me to rant on about the pitfalls of marketing around the organic movement, which is a good one in theory.
The point is for me to say: buy this book, It's full of fantastic recipes, What we like most is to produce foods ourselves from start to finish from farm to table, the

Riverford way, Food should tell a story and, because we know what it is, we can tell you,


Guy Watsons ethos is simple: he wants to put fresh, flavoursome, seasonal food back onto peoples plates, In, armed with a wheelbarrow and a borrowed tractor, he established his first Riverford farm in South Devon, Since then, and largely thanks to a groundbreaking homedelivery vegetable box scheme, a small network of Riverford farms has sprung up across Britain, Packed with tips on growing your own organic vegetables and brimming with hearty recipes from Riverfords celebrated Field Kitchen, the Riverford Farm Cook Book gives an organic farmers unique insight into greattasting food grown with care and cooked with passion.
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