An enticing mixture of food writing, blog, memoir and recipe book, based on the need to find the quickest and tastiest ways of using produce from the garden.
It includes photographs of fruits, vegetables, prepared dishes and the vegetable patch, together with blog entries, recipe ideas, anecdotes and memories.
There are individual chapters on twenty-two different fruits and vegetables, from Apples through to Turnips: thoughts on jam-making, influential cookery writers, herbs and salads and an index of over seventy recipes.