Kitchen Garden Experts - Hardcover

McTernan, Cinead

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0711234965 ISBN 13: 9780711234963

Publisher: Frances Lincoln, 2014

Synopsis

Kitchen Garden Experts features the chefs and gardeners at twenty of the UK’s most exciting restaurants, hotels, pubs and cafes, focussing on how they produce the best fruit and vegetables to appear on their menus.

With this book you can:

• Explore the kitchens and gardens of twenty celebrated chefs, from, Sir Terrance Conran and Raymond Blanc to River Cottrage and L’Enclume
• Gain extraordinary access to 20 recipe books and 40 signature dishes
• Discover key ingredients and special growing methods that help these chefs win awards for excellence
• Follow the simple steps from plot to plate, learning new growing skills
• Savour the flavour of fresh local produce – either at your own table or by visiting the restaurants themselves

Twenty featured chefs include:

Raymond Blanc & Anne-Marie Owens at Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, Gill Meller at River Cottage Sir Terence Conran at Barton Court, Simon Rogan at L’Enclume, Tom Lewis at Monachyle Mhor, Jack Stein at Padstow Kitchen Garden, Ruthie Rogers at River Café, Skye Gyngell at Heckfield Place.

 

About this title

About the Authors

CINEAD McTERNAN is a horticulturally trained editor of The Edible Garden magazine, and deputy editor of The English Garden. She has previously worked on BBC Gardener's World.JASON INGRAM is an award-winning garden and food photographer

Entirely self-taught while growing up in the Franche-Comte region of eastern France, Raymond Blanc has been a restauranteur since 1977, and has nurtured the talents of scores of the world's finest chefs in his kitchens and gardens. Raymond was recently awarded an OBE in recognition of his efforts to promote culinary excellence. Author of the seminal Foolproof French Cookery and owner of a number of Michelin-starred restaurants, he was also recently awarded a Lifetime Acheivement Award at The Catey Awards - the catering industry's 'Oscars'.

Jason Ingram is an award-winning garden and food photographer who photographs plants, gardens and people for magazines and books. His previous published work with Frances Lincoln includes Kitchen Garden Experts, One Pot Gourmet Gardener and The Cut Flower Patch. Jason was judged Photographer of the Year by the Garden Media Guild in 2013 and 2014.

Edition details

• Publisher: Frances Lincoln
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0711234965
• ISBN 13: 9780711234963
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192