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Baking Bread With Children
BAKING BREAD WITH CHILDREN
Warren Lee Cohen
Beautifully interlaced with drawings, poems, songs and stories this recipe book awakens the creative art of bread making. Includes a variety of recipes such as Irish soda bread, pretzels, rye bread, gingerbread men, pizza, harvest spelt bread and oatmeal apple raisin bread. A wonderful process to share with children. 212pp

BBC £14.99 add to cart




Ballymaloe Bread Book
THE BALLYMALOE BREAD BOOK
Tim Allen
Ireland's baking tradition is legendary. Here, Tim Allen shares his enthusiasm for bread baking by offering more than a hundred recipes for every conceivable type of bread, from simple scones and soda bread to pizza, focaccia and exotic ethnic bread. Yummy...... 154pp

BBB £12.99 add to cart




Bread Matters
BREAD MATTERS
The State Of Bread & A Definitive Guide To Baking Your Own
Andrew Whitley
Andrew Whitley is an experienced organic baker who explains why it is so important to bake our own bread and the best way to do it for optimum health and happiness. Includes recipes to make a range of breads, plus gluten-free baking. 384pp

BMTS £20.00 add to cart




Biodynamic Food and Cookbook
THE BIODYNAMIC FOOD & COOKBOOK
Wendy E Cook
This book explains the principles behind biodynamics and places it in the context of food and cooking. The 150+ delicious recipes are divided into sections for the four seasons and using local ingredients when they are available, further chapters on Bread, Cakes & Biscuits, Vegetable dishes etc. Beautifully illustrated with colour photos. 56pp

BFC £18.99 add to cart




Campfire Cookbook THE CAMPFIRE COOKBOOK
A Handbook For Hungry Campers & Hikers
Don & Pam Philpott
Discover simple campfire eating; how to build a safe fire, keep food fresh and cook on an open fire. Learn about the best lightweight stoves and utensils for backpacking and which foods to use for ultimate nutrition when hiking. With over 80 specially created recipes to enjoy tasty meals whether you are hiking with minimal equipment or camping with a van and a grill or dutch oven. 144pp

CFC1 £12.99 add to cart




Cheesemaking & Dairying CHEESEMAKING AND DAIRYING
Cheese, Yoghurts, Butter & Ice Cream
Katie Thear
A revised, 4th edition of this terrific little book. It covers how to make tasty cheeses, soft and pressed, with step-by-step instructions and advice on good dairying practice. It also covers yoghurt and cream, ice-cream, farmhouse and butter. It is well illustrated, practical book, full of traditional recipes, equipment requirements and suppliers. 104pp

CMD £7.95 add to cart




Dough DOUGH
Simple Contemporary Bread
Richard Bertinet
Richard’s technique is simple and very effective. He uses a method of ‘working’ the dough rather than ‘kneading’ it creating perfect light dough. Includes a variety of recipes for white bread, olive oil bread, brown, rye and sweet and for many occasions. My favourite is the bread soup bowls. The honey and lavender loaf also sounds delicious. This will ignite your passion for bread making. With a FREE 30 minute DVD. 160ppp

DSC £15.95 add to cart




Gaias Kitchen GAIA'S KITCHEN
Vegetarian Recipes for Family and Community from Schumacher College
Julia Ponsonby
The best of Mediterranian, Californian, Indian and Mexican vegetarian cooking in one book. Celebrating old favourites rich in cheese and eggs and new vegan dishes using pulses, tofu and tempeh. A repertoire of soups, main courses, salads, deserts, breads, cakes and biscuits for families and also fo those larger celebrations. 192pp

GK1 £14.95 add to cart




Grow Organic, Cook Organic GROW ORGANIC, COOK ORGANIC
Christine Lavelle, Michael Levelle & Ysanne Spevack
Full of information on how to grow you own food along with 150 seasonal organic recipes. It has a plant by plant directory of fruit and vegetables, advice on organic gardening, such as aspect, natural pest control, soil, aftercare, harvesting and storage. The delicious recipes are illustrated with stunning colour photographs. 512pp

GOCO £14.99 add to cart




Growing Vines to Make Wines GROWING VINES TO MAKE WINES
Nick Poulter
The author shares his expertise, built up over decades of growing vines and making wine, first from his garden and then commercially. Technical where it needs to be, but also bursting with enthusiasm for the process and the finished product. 184pp

GVW £5.95 add to cart




Guide To Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game A GUIDE TO CANNING, FREEZING, CURING & SMOKING MEAT, FISH & GAME
Wilbur F Eastman Jr.
A revised and updated practical manual with 100,000 copies in print. Includes detailed diagrams and a clear introduction to the subject with very useful and easy to use graphs and temperature curves for food preservation. Details different cuts of meat and fish. The smoking section is very good! 232pp

GCF £12.99 add to cart




Hedgerow Cookbook A HEDGEROW COOKBOOK
Glennie Kindred
A little book of magical mouthwatering wild plants and rambling recipes, beautifully prepared and seasonally presented. 60pp

HC2 £4.99 add to cart




How to Store Your Garden Produce HOW TO STORE YOUR GARDEN PRODUCE
Piers Warren
How to bottle, freeze, clamp, hang, dry, pickle and ferment produce grown in the garden and on the allotment for year-long home grown goodness. A great little book! 104pp

SGP £7.95 add to cart




Juicing Bible THE JUICING BIBLE
Pat Crocker & Susan Eagles
With over 250 healing and healthy juicing recipes (including smoothies, roughies, frozen treats, aperitifs, digestifs, bitters, teas, juices and tonics), a comprehensive reference of more than 185 ingredients and a guide to the natural treatment of 80 health conditions, this has to be one the best books on the subject. A great complement to one of our superb juicers (see PRODUCTS section). 288pp

JB1 £12.95 add to cart




Lipsmaking Backpacking LIPSMACKING BACKPACKING
How To Cook On Your Travels
Mark Pallis
This humorously written little book shows you how to cook well whilst on the move. Includes some basic recipes that you can build upon and alter depending on where you are and what ingredients are available. An ideal travelling companion. 56pp

LBH £4.99 add to cart




Organic Baby & Toddler Cookbook THE ORGANIC BABY & TODDLER COOKBOOK
From First Foods To Family Meals
Daphne Lambert & Tanyia Maxted-Frost
This emphasises the importance of feeding babies and toddlers with organic food and gives good nutritional advice for parents. The recipes cover raw and lightly cooked food, juicing recipes for breast feeding mothers and babies, blender salads and a seasonal planner. 128pp

OBT £6.95 add to cart






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Featured Items

FORAGING


EASY WILD FOOD GUIDE

Easy Wild Food Guide

Neil Fletcher
This is a seasonal
foraging guide for fungi, plants, berries and fauna, both aquatic and
landbased. Every page has drawings plus photographs for identification with
tips for cooking and eating. 256pp

EWFG £12.99
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FOOD FOR FREE

Food For Free

Richard Mabey
By popular demand, larger format guide to the wide range of often exotic and delicious wild foods that we can gather in Britain. The original Food For Free was published in 1972 and is regarded as a seminal publication, exploring the history and folklore of the foods as well as explaining how we identify them. This new edition brings the subject right up to date. Organised by season with stunning photographs, the book has a wealth of practical information on collecting, preparing and cooking, plus recipes. 192pp

FFF2 £16.99
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FOOD FOR FREE

Food For Free Original

A Guide to the Edible Wild Plants of Britain

Richard Mabey
The wild food foragers’ bible. First published 27 years ago, it describes over 240 edible foods found in the wild. Includes fungi, nuts, green vegetables, salads, roots, herbs, flowers, fruits, spices, seaweed and shellfish. The nutritional and gastronomic value of each plant is discussed and guidance given on how to find, gather and cook it. Includes over 240 colour plates to aid easy identification. 240pp

FFF £12.99 add to cart


FOOD FOR FREE

Food For Free Gem

Pocket Gem Edition

Richard Mabey
This is a backpacker’s size guide to the now classic book that inspired so many people to forage for food once again. It’s tiny, light and can easily fit in a back pocket. At the same time it is still practical and encouraging and also has recipes to try out. It covers plants (including trees), fungi, seaweed and shellfish. It has those essential harvesting guidelines so we don’t inadvertently denude the countryside, and a monthly calendar of what’s available to gather and when. A great little book for the pocket and comes highly recommended. 240pp

FFF3 £4.99
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MUSHROOM

Mushroom

Johnny Acton & Nick Sandler
Not only do Johnny and Nick offer wonderful recipes using a wide range of mushrooms, they also explore the myth and folklore behind mush-rooms as well as explaining how mushrooms develop and propagate themselves. The excitement of foraging, the aphrodisiac properties of truffles, hedgehog mushrooms; its all here, with stunning photographic illustrations. For each mushroom there is at least one amazing recipe to make the most of your free harvest. 160pp

MJN £14.95 add to basket


WILD FOOD

Wid Food

Roger Phillips
Full of beautiful photographs, detailed descriptions of the location and taste of each plant and scrumptious recipes, this favourite book is useful for the forager and the gardener of native perennials and self-seeders alike. Provides ample inspiration to start collecting, growing and eating wild food. 164pp

WF1 £18.99 add to basket




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