Using the words and experiences of the fishermen themselves, auctioneers, processors and fish merchants, this book debunks any idea that fishermen are wilfully destroying the very thing that provides them with a living, showing instead the initiatives they have taken to protect stocks for the future. While celebrating the positive aspects of Cornish fishing, “Cornish Fishing and Seafood” does not shy away from recent difficulties – decommissioning, cuts in fish quotas, and shortages of manpower.
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It also looks forwards, and outlines the steps being taken to ensure that Cornish fishermen and Cornish boats keep fishing profitably in the twenty-first century. “Cornish Fishing and Seafood” has been written with support from the industry, at sea and onshore, so that profits from sales can help the Duchy Fish Quota Company to keep Cornish fishing quota in Cornwall.

About the Author
Carol Trewin is Food Editor of the Western Morning News, was editor of Radio 4′s Farming Today and has worked for BBC Radio 4′s Food Programme, Woman’s Hour and the BBC World Service. Other farming, food and environmental programmes that she has produced include On Your Farm, Costing the Earth, Walston Goes Walkabout, and Over the Counter.

She was Farming Editor of the Western Morning News, and later joined the regional food group Taste of the West, to set up and run a GBP3 million food and drink project in Cornwall. She writes on farming, food and the countryside for many publications, including Food Illustrated, The Field, British Farmer and Grower, Inside Cornwall, food and Devon Today.

In 1999 she was elected an Associate of the Royal Agricultural Societies. Carol is author of Gourmet Cornwall (Alison Hodge, 2005). Adam Woolfitt has been a photographer most of his life, and contributed to the National Geographic and other leading magazines for 30 years. He writes on digital photography for the British Journal of Photography, Image Magazine, and Photo District News in New York. He was Chairman of, and on the Council of, the Association of Photographers, and is an Honorary Fellow of the British Institute of Professional Photographers. Adam illustrated Gourmet Cornwall (Alison Hodge, 2005).

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A Brilliant Guide, 4 July 2010 By Helen
This book, impressed me very much becuase it is clear preciese and very informative. I found it very easy to refer to and gave me many ideas in simple to do and simple to achieve. I wish I had brought it as a first organic gardening book before I brought the others.

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The recipes group fish not just by species, but by shape: large fleshy fish, flat fish, small round fish, crustaceans and so on–a sensible approach, since within these categories the fish are to an extent interchangeable. Austerely, the recipes are neither prefaced with an introductory blurb nor sourced, but they are of the most distinguished provenance. Salmon en Croute with Currants and Ginger, for example is a famous George Perry-Smith recipe; the neighbouring Escalopes of Salmon with Sorrel Sauce derives from the Triosgros brother; while the interestingly strange Pernod and olive oil dressing with which Stein anoints grilled Dublin Bay prawns comes from Alexandre Dumas by way of Elizabeth David (it also includes mustard, soy sauce and tarragon). This is not to accuse Stein of plagiarism: he has simply collected the very finest seafood recipes and filtered everything through his characteristic simplicity and emphasis on freshness, quality and flavour. The result is a book of quite exceptional quality and usefulness. One hesitates to use the word bible, but if seafood can have one, this may be it. –Robin Davidson

Over the years, through his television programmes and books, Rick Stein has done much to inform us about fish and to encourage us to cook it for ourselves, however, many of us still feel nervous about cooking it at home. Rick Stein’s Seafood brings together his knowledge and expertise, and includes 200 of his tried-and-tested recipes.

It is divided into three separate sections: Techniques; Recipes and, finally, an A to Z of Fish. The techniques section covers all the main preparation and cooking methods for each type of fish (round, flat, shellfish etc), while the A-Z of fish is a comprehensive encyclopedia of fish and seafood including US, Australian and European fish. The recipe section includes all the essential basic recipes, such as stocks, sauces, batters etc. Useful cross references link all sections.

Rick Stein’s Seafood has been an international bestseller and was awarded the highly coveted James Beard Foundation Cookbook of the Year Award in 2005.

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In Grow Great Grub, Gayla Trail, the founder of the leading online gardening community (YouGrowGirl.com), shows you how to grow your own delicious, affordable, organic edibles virtually anywhere.

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Grow Great Grub packs in tips and essential information about:

• Choosing a location and making the most of your soil (even if it’s less than perfect)
• Building a raised bed, compost bin, and self-watering container using recycled materials
• Keeping pests and diseases away from your plants—the toxin-free way
• Growing bountiful crops in pots and selecting the best heirloom varieties
• Cultivating hundreds of plants, from blueberries to Thai basil, to the best tomatoes you’ll ever taste
• Canning, and preserving to make the most of your garden’s generosity
• Green-friendly, cost-saving, growing, and building projects that are smart and stylish
• And much more!

Whether you’re looking to eat on a budget or simply experience the pleasure of picking tonight’s meal from right outside your door, this is the must-have book for small-space gardeners—no backyard required.

GAYLA TRAIL is the creator of the acclaimed top gardening website yougrowgirl.com. Her work as a writer and photographer has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Newsweek, Budget Living, and ReadyMade. A resident of Toronto who has grown a garden on her rooftop for more than 10 years, she is the author of You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening.

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‘With passion and commitment thousands of “small” people built Eden as a symbol of hope in action…We may all have feet of clay, but that shouldn’t stop us trying to make a difference….We say, “Demand the impossible”.’ So said Tim Smit and thus was the impossible delivered: a living theatre of plants and people and their interdependence, housed in a disused china clay pit and featuring the world’s largest greenhouses.

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Since Eden opened in 2001, well over ten million visitors have made their way to Eden, drawn by the astonishing, visionary ambition of its founders, the everchanging horticulture and new developments on-site. More have discovered it as an extraordinary music venue, attending Eden’s sessions. But Eden is far more than a visitor attraction. It has mutated into an organisation with projects and partnerships all over the world concerned with rehabilitation (physical and social), community education, biodiversity, sustainable construction, green employment and town planning.

Marking the 10th anniversary, this edition is the extraordinary, fully updated story of Eden complete with stunning new photographs.

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Jamie grew up in one of the first true British “gastropubs”, which his Mum and Dad still run today. For him, the heart and soul of real British cooking is food that puts a smile on your face. And that’s what he wants to share in the new book: the essence of British food, done properly.

Over the years, British food culture has embraced flavours and influences from all the people who came and made Great Britain their home. The food reflects an open-minded culture as well as the country’s beauty. There are over 100 of Jamie’s favourite recipes: some are indisputable classics, some are his versions of the classics, some should be classics but just haven’t been made famous yet and others he’s made up from the great bounty of British produce.

Wherever you’re from, if you love food this book will offer you a little taste of happiness.

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Do you know every gardening technique and rule of thumb off pat? Or do you occasionally straighten up from your digging to try and remember exactly what you’re meant to be doing? How deep should you plant these bulbs? Was it now you were supposed to prune this rose, or in February? Can you compost this weed? Is it OK to plant out these seedlings now? It’s such a pain having to go indoors, kick off your boots, shed your outdoor clothes and start looking up the answer to your question in some great gardening tome. And that’s where The Gardener’s Pocket Bible comes in. Now, you can stay in the garden and look up all those essential facts and figures in an instant. At your fingertips you’ll have all the answers to your on-the-spot questions such as: Which plants do you need to protect from frost? When should you cut the hedge? What plants need staking, and when? How can you get rid of greenfly without using pesticides? This indispensible little guide will tell you what you need to know, when you need to know it – and will save you thumbing through gardening encyclopedias when what you actually want to do is get on with the gardening.

This beautiful hardback edition has both dust-cover and gold embossing on the spine making it the perfect gift. Every Pocket Bible is lovingly crafted to give you a unique mix of useful references, handy tips and fascinating trivia that will enlighten and entertain you at every page. There is a Pocket Bible for everyone…

Other titles in the series: The Outdoor Pocket Bible,
The Camping Pocket Bible,
The London Pocket Bible,
The Camping Pocket Bible
and The Railway Pocket Bible.

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Ordinarily the word “lifestyle” is more likely to be applied to slender magazine articles puffing lofts full of Eames furniture rather than books about smallholdings in Dorset. The River Cottage Cookbook, however, is a hefty 450 pages of pure, gumbooted rural lifestyle; and one could not wish it shorter. Cook, broadcaster and food-writer-at-large Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has been ensconced at River Cottage for a number of years, cultivating his vegetable garden, raising chickens, pigs and even cattle for his table and taking occasional potshots at the local wildlife. His achievements have been chronicled on television; now they appear between hard covers.

Although it calls itself a cookbook and does contain a large number of fine recipes, the book’s scope is much broader. Really, this is more like one of those “Enquire Within on Everything” volumes 19th-century settlers used to take to the outback with them, full of instructions for mixing whitewash, worming dogs and making a bag pudding. Starting with vegetables, proceeding to livestock and fish (River Cottage does indeed have a river and is only five miles from the sea) and concluding with the wild food, floral and faunal, of the hedgerow, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall explains how he grows, gathers, kills and cooks his own food.

There is a lot of information here, and a lot of hard reality, too: he is very clear and forthright about the place of death in this kind of life. But then this is a very clear and forthright book overall, a very engaging and really quite inspirational manual of how to live the country life so many of us dream about. It’s well-illustrated, too, with Simon Wheeler’s fine photographs of Hugh at work chasing chickens, skinning eels, carrying piglets and so on. The food in the River Cottage kitchen looks wonderful, too, though the photo of a cod-head glaring resentfully from under a beehive of parsley in a stock pot carries many more resonances than it is possible to summarise here. –Robin Davidson –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review - “As good for the armchair as it is in the kitchen, even worth packing for reference outdoors.” — Tom Jaine, The Guardian “Hugh’s take on food is charming and refreshingly earthy. How can one refuse?” — Rick Stein –This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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This book, the latest innovative Haynes Manual, will provide a complete and easy-to-understand reference for the growing band of people wishing to keep their own chickens for both food and pleasure. Pitched at the novice but also containing plenty to interest the experienced chicken-keeper, the book will contain no-nonsense advice, tips, facts and step-by step sequences, as well as plenty of relevant photographs and diagrams. As more people keep chickens nowadays than at any time since the Second World War, this book is a timely addition to the Haynes range.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great For anyone thinking of keeping chickens, 2 Feb 2010
By Mr. S. J. Power (Norfolk England)
This review is from: Chicken Manual: The Complete Step-by-step Guide to Keeping Chickens (Hardcover)
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Great pictures and a great book for information for any one starting out in poultry.

Gives you details of everything you need to know even plans to build you own coop. The lot is covered from breeding to health care to what your eggs should be like.

All the basics are there on care and feeding even what you need in your first aid kit. I will be recommending this book to all the people who buy chickens from me as a great start up book.

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With over 200 recipes and vibrant photography from Simon Wheeler, River Cottage Veg Every Day is a timely eulogy to the glorious green stuff.

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