The Cook and the Gardener

Available from Book Larder when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

A 25th anniversary edition of seasonal recipes from a traditional French garden. The ancient link between the gardener and the cook is at the heart of this remarkably evocative cookbook, in which Amanda Hesser tells the story of a year she spent as a cook in a seventeenth-century château in Burgundy. The property’s old gardener was wary of her at first, but over time they became friends, and he showed her a way of life that was quickly disappearing from France. With more than 240 recipes, organi