Delia Smith has always been most concerned with the quality and flavour of the ingredients she uses, and nothing comes fresher than fruit, vegetables and herbs from your own garden. So, when the opportunity arose for her to work with her longstanding friend, garden expert Gay Search, to create her own kitchen garden, she seized the chance.
This guide, now available in paperback, and written by Gay with 56 recipes from Delia, is for those who are interested in good food - free from pesticides - and who want to try their hand at growing their own.
It follows a year in the life of Delia's kitchen garden, with a chapter devoted to each month, containing detailed advice on sowing and planting, fruit and vegetable varieties and how to harvest.
With failsafe Delia Smith recipes that use the home-grown produce at its peak, this guide is suitable for first-time horticulturists and cooks of all levels. The book is lavishly designed and has over 300 colour photographs.
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Gay Search is one of Britain's best-known television gardeners. In the Nineties, she devised and presented BBC2's Front Gardens. She worked with the late Geoff Hamilton on titles, including Old Garden, New Gardener, and from 1995 to 2001 she was a presenter on BBC2's Gardeners' World. She has written many bestselling books, including Front Gardens, Gardening from Scratch, Gardening Without a Garden, The Impatient Gardener and Gardeners' World Through The Years. Gay is gardening editor of Sainsbury's Magazine and shares her garden in London with her husband, two sons, two cats and, naturally, assorted wildlife.
Delia Smith is Britain's bestselling cookery author, whose books have sold over 18 million copies. From her first job as a cookery writer for the Daily Mirror magazine in 1969, Delia published How To Cheat at Cooking, then presented Family Fare for BBC1. Her series How To Cook, was a huge success. In 2002 she produced her Vegetarian Collection, then The Delia Collection - Soup, Chicken, Chocolate, Fish, Italian, Pork, Baking and Puddings. Delia is a director of Norwich City Football Club, where she is in charge of Canary Catering, several restaurants and food and wine workshops. She is married to the writer and editor Michael Wynn Jones. They live in Suffolk.
