Delia Smith has always been most concerned with the quality and flavour of the ingredients she uses, and nothing comes fresher than fruit and vegetables from your own garden. So, when the opportunity arose for her to work with her longstanding friend, garden expert Gay Search, to create her own kitchen garden, she seized the chance. This guide, now available in paperback, and written by Gay with 56 recipes from Delia, is for those who are interested in good food and want to try their hand at growing their own. It follows a year in the life of her kitchen garden, with a chapter devoted to each month, containing detailed advice on sowing and planting, fruit and vegetable varieties, and how to harvest. With failsafe recipes by Delia that use the produce at its peak, this guide is suitable for first-time horticulturists and cooks of all levels. The book is lavishly designed and has over 300 colour photographs.
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Gay Search is one of Britain's best-known television gardeners. In the Nineties, she devised and presented BBC2's Front Gardens. She worked with the late Geoff Hamilton on titles, including Old Garden, New Gardener, and from 1995 to 2001 she was a presenter on BBC2's Gardeners' World. She has written many bestselling books, including Front Gardens, Gardening from Scratch, Gardening Without a Garden, The Impatient Gardener and Gardeners' World Through The Years. Gay is gardening editor of Sainsbury's Magazine and shares her garden in London with her husband, two sons, two cats and, naturally, assorted wildlife. Delia Smith is Britain's bestselling cookery author, whose books have sold over 18 million copies. From her first job as a cookery writer for the Daily Mirror magazine in 1969, Delia published How To Cheat at Cooking, then presented Family Fare for BBC1. Her series How To Cook, was a huge success. In 2002 she produced her Vegetarian Collection, then The Delia Collection - Soup, Chicken, Chocolate, Fish, Italian, Pork, Baking and Puddings. Delia is a director of Norwich City Football Club, where she is in charge of Canary Catering, several restaurants and food and wine workshops. She is married to the writer and editor Michael Wynn Jones. They live in Suffolk.
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This beginner's guide to growing your own produce takes the reader through a year in Delia Smith's kitchen garden. It is packed with gardening advice and includes 56 fabulous Delia recipes.
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36 of 39 people found the following review helpful
By gemskib77
Format:Hardcover
Colourful and descriptive, this book takes you through every season of your vegetable garden- a must for those of us who think the season only runs from spring to autumn. It shows you have to utilise all 12 months. Unlike other gardening books, this also gives you interesting and different recipes to take your home grown produce from earth to the table. - A great buy!
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By Gordy
Format:Paperback
This is a beautifully illustrated and organised book, each chapter is dedicated to a particular month of the year and features large, full-colour photographs. It would make a nice gift for somebody who might be interested in growing vegetables and cooking with more varied, fresh ingredients, but who has no particular vocation for either activity.
Beyond making an interesting book for the coffee table, for the novice and more experienced gardener this book is probably of little practical utility.
Beyond making an interesting book for the coffee table, for the novice and more experienced gardener this book is probably of little practical utility.
177 of 210 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Christmas is coming (I write this review in November) and the cooks are getting fat, please buy a copy of their latest load of ... recipes. There are, I suppose, three contenders - Nigella Lawson, Jamie Oliver, and Delia. Well, sorry Jamie. And I could lust after Nigella ... excuse me while I just take a moment. But Delia! You'd come home to Delia, wouldn't you? I mean, with Delia, it goes way beyond lust! She's already taught half the British Isles how to boil an egg and butter toast; some of us even treasure a video clip in which she instructs on the roasting of the perfect duck. (Pause for a moment while I launch into a Homer Simpson moment ... Mmmmmm, duck.)
Can you guess I'm a fan? How could I be critical of this latest helping? Well, I can. It's not for everyone. Nigella might offer you the perfect recipes for that next, important dinner party, Jamie might give you enough hints to show off in front of the girl next floor, but this time, Delia isn't going to seduce you with magnificent cookery. "Delia's Kitchen Garden" is all about green fingers, not green salads.
The book is an attempt to introduce you to the joys of gardening, not just as an excuse for annoying the neighbours or growing regiments of flowers, but as an adventure in growing your own food. Given the BBC's success in delivering gardening and cooking programmes to a couch-bound public, it was inevitable this would happen. The notion is that you should be able to reach out your back door, harvest your own new potatoes, asparagus, strawberries, or peas, and whip up a mouth-watering Delia meal. Last time I looked out my back door there was half an acre of nettles ... but I'd bet Delia could suggest a dozen ways to cook them!
This book is a beginner's guide to growing your own food. This is laudable. The advice is basic without being patronising. Given the dissatisfaction many of us feel with the plastic quality of much packaged food in the supermarkets, to experience even an occasional mouthful of food you have sown, nurtured and raised all by yourself ... well, that really is exciting. I hope the book actually does have an impact. It is not difficult to grow your own food - you don't have to plough a field, you can grow some chillies on a window sill, raise courgettes or beans in even a tight little back yard.
I repeat, a laudable exercise, combining advice on growing the food with Delia's encouragement on how best to cook it. There is no taste quite like that of your own freshly picked produce, and there are few cooks offering better advice than Delia on how best to emphasise the flavours. This is the sort of book you buy as a project - as motivation to do something different in the next year. Growing food, raising something from seed is therapeutic. Even if you decide not to buy the book ... do try growing something. The results, I promise, will amaze you.
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