The Great Dixter Cookbook: Recipes from an English Garden - Hardcover

Bertelsen, Aaron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0714874000 ISBN 13: 9780714874005

Publisher: Phaidon Press, 2017

Synopsis

Seasonal recipes and expert planting guides from Great Dixter, Christopher Lloyd's quintessential English country garden

The Great Dixter Cookbook features seventy simple and delicious seasonal recipes from the kitchen garden at Great Dixter, the historic house and garden located on the borders of Kent and Sussex. Dishes included range from English classics such as chicken and leek pie, apple crumble, and beetroot chutney, to contemporary recipes like crispy kale with sea salt and shakshuka. Dixter was home to the revered and highly influential gardener and writer, Christopher Lloyd, and a number of this book's recipes have been taken from the Lloyd family's personal kitchen notebooks. With growing guides to more than twenty varieties of vegetables and fruit to accompany the recipes, this practical, accessible book enriches the kitchens and lives of home cooks and gardeners worldwide.

About this title

About the Author

Aaron Bertelsen  is a gardener, writer, and cook. Formerly the vegetable gardener and cook at Great Dixter, he is now a garden advisor and public speaker/educator for his own company, AKB. He is also the author of   Grow Fruit & Vegetables in Pots: Planting Advice & Recipes from Great Dixter , published by Phaidon.

All royalties from the book will be donated by the author to the Great Dixter Charitable Trust.

From the Back Cover

Seasonal recipes and expert planting guides from Great Dixter, Christopher Lloyd's quintessential English country garden

The Great Dixter Cookbook features seventy simple and delicious seasonal recipes from the kitchen garden at Great Dixter, the historic house and garden located on the borders of Kent and Sussex. Dishes included range from English classics such as chicken and leek pie, apple crumble, and beetroot chutney, to contemporary recipes like crispy kale with sea salt and shakshuka. Dixter was home to the revered and highly influential gardener and writer, Christopher Lloyd, and a number of this book's recipes have been taken from the Lloyd family's personal kitchen notebooks. With growing guides to more than twenty varieties of vegetables and fruit to accompany the recipes, this practical, accessible book enriches the kitchens and lives of home cooks and gardeners worldwide.

Edition details

• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714874000
• ISBN 13: 9780714874005
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240