January 21, 2008
‘Our first cockerel was an accident called Yvette…’ Imagine Peter Mayle was rewriting A Year in Provence, but from the back of a hen coop, not France. Just as he followed his dream of a life in the sun, so Martin Gurdon followed the dream of daily fresh eggs and chickens in his garden. This [...]
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January 15, 2008
It’s logical, isn’t it. If you grow your own food you also want to eat it, so what could be better than a book that combines both disciplines? Well, that’s the theory, anyway. The Allotment Cookbook is a strange mix: part harvesting and part cooking, but barely any gardening. It feels like two books stapled [...]
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