*As Seen on BBC One's Strawbridge Over the Drawbridge! Understanding how to use salt can make or break a dish. Salt and the Art of Seasoning will not only help you master your use of seasoning, but it will allow you to reimagine how you cook, cure and work with salt in your kitchen - elevating your flavours to a whole new level. Includes over 100 salt-inspired recipes! Salt is extraordinary. A fundamental, ancient resource used for thousands of years around the world, it is the one essential ingredient that transforms all cooking: elevating flavours from good to great, to unforgettable. In this stunning new cookbook, chef, TV presenter, food photographer and sustainable living expert James Strawbridge shares with you the fundamentals of this artisan ingredient: from distinctive flavour notes and profiles of different salts found around the world, to brilliantly useful techniques - such as brining, baking, charring, fermenting and preserving. Inside, you'll also find: The Science of Taste A Salt Sommelier's Guide How to measure 'to taste' and season correctly Salt Craft - from curing to blocking to baking Over 100 recipes - from drinks to desserts Salt and the Art of Seasoning will show you how to choose the right type of salt for the right type of dish, how to add it at the right time and in the right amount. James shares techniques such as using salt to pickle, cure and ferment as well as making your own flavoured or smoked salts to bring out all sorts of previously hidden flavours. James has also crafted salt-inspired recipes to help you use salt in more creative, healthy and delicious ways. Recipes include: Brined chicken Cornish salted sardines European-style sour pickles Native American cured fish Kimchi fried rice 8 essential flavoured salts Smoked salted butter Focaccia Smoked toddy And more! Salt and the Art of Seasoning takes you on an unforgettable journey exploring salt's long role in food throughout the world and human history - while teaching you how to best use this fundamental spice tonight to make your meal sing.

WINNER OF THE ANDRE SIMON FOOD BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2014 'Otter Farm is all about flavour. It starts and ends with the question: What do I really want to eat?' The taste of a perfectly ripe mulberry was Mark Diacono's inspiration for creating Otter Farm, a unique smallholding in Devon with every inch dedicated to extraordinary produce. Sprouting broccoli, asparagus, artichokes, borlotti beans and chard flourish in the vegetable patch; quince and Chilean guava grow in the edible forest; and pigs and chickens roam freely. Here Mark shares his colourful, beautiful recipes, all brimming with flavour and with fresh vegetables, herbs and fruit - including a warm salad of Padron peppers, cherries and halloumi, a stew made from chicken, pork and borlotti beans, a curried squash and mussel soup, and cucumber ice cream, quince doughnuts and fennel toffee apples. He charts the seasonal challenges and excitements of rural living, and offers practical advice for cultivating the best of the familiar, unusual and forgotten varieties at home. With luminous photography that captures life in the kitchen and outdoors, this ground-breaking book reveals how even the most exotic and exciting tastes can have their roots in British soil.

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Delicious raspberries are versatile, nutritious, and always add a special flair to any dish, whether used in cakes, pies and breads, in preserves, as a salad ingredient, in wines or brandies, or any number of other imaginative ways. Rich in vitamins A and C, they also contain ellagic acid, an anti-carcinogenic (cancer-preventing) compound. In Raspberry Delights Cookbook, author Karen Jean Matsko Hood presents her collection of more than 270 exciting raspberry recipes that will be sure to please everyone. Inside, you will also find some fascinating reading regarding this wholesome berry's history, folklore, cultivation, and much more. With recipes using readily available ingredients, Raspberry Delights Cookbook will be a valued addition to any chef's bookshelf.