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I don't actually own this book but have looked through it several times & it looks great. It's on offer at Waterstones at the moment for half price (about£10) & has lots of good recipes as well as advice on growing your own. The thing that puts me off is all the detail about rearing & butchering your own animals as I don't eat meat but the veggy stuff looks tasty. There's a good section on hedgerow food as well for the more frugal amongst us!
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It's a fabulous book and my advice would be to buy it. At only £10 you can't go wrong
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Mentioned it to OH....DON'T BUY IT she says, then muttered something about christmas!Originally posted by sewer rat View Post
Think I might give it a miss!
My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Diversify & prosper
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Snadger where has your lovely poem gone from your signature?????[Comment
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Agree with the comments above, was bought it by my old workk colleagues when I left my last job and read it from cover to cover over the weekend like a proper book rather than a cookery book which you tend to flick through rather more.
Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.
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Come back Amon-Ra, all is forgiven!Originally posted by Lesley Jay View Post
My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
Diversify & prosper
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You're all tempting me to buy it now, I suppose I could just flick past all the pictures of little lambs & cows with joints drawn on them & the recipes for rabbit etc.!
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I agree it is a great book. All of his cook books are good. Managed to get HFW to sign my meat cook book.. I bought the river cottage family cookbook recently...the cheese straws are to die for.Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful..William MorrisComment
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its a great book, go for it, my ozzie veggie friend stayed with us and read it cover to cover, loved it, the animal bits will be relevant even if you dont cook or eat meat yourself, it gives you ammunition for your supermarket meat friends, hfw is a halfway house for people who want to eat meat without causing unnessasary suffering.
get it!Yo an' Bob
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take only what you need
give all you can
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Quality read with a good animal husbandry ethos to boot.Comment
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Not really my cup of tea to be honest Nick...Originally posted by nick the grief View PostIt's cos you two fancy him . Bit worried about Snadger now though
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Got it too! Really love the recipes and the way the book is set out. OH mentioned something in the summer about the way I ran up the field from the polytunnel clutching my harvest into the kitchen and straight to HFW's book!~
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
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