Her actions could make history – but at what price?

1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than

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This book addresses all of these issues & takes us month by month through the maze of what to eat & from where. It re-introduces us to a healthy lifestyle & provides good recipes that make the most of all of the seasonal produce that is available to us throughout the year. We just can't go on repeating the same old mistakes, for example flying fruit & vegetables to our supermarkets out of season. By the time we get it, the food itself has little value in terms of nutrition & we just can't afford the cost in greenhouse gases any more. The problem is that nobody taught us about the intricacies of our local seasons & how they produce much more flavoursome & very much healthier eating. Carolyn explains everything here. ...

When ex-Government minister Sir Paul Berowne & local tramp/alcoholic Harry Mack are both found with their throats cut in vestry of St Matthews Church, the police are left with an intriguing mystery. Commander Adam Dalgliesh heads a Scotland Yard unit dealing with politically sensitive crimes & this case in particular was effecting as he had known Berowne, & shortly before his resignation asked for Adam's help with a anonymous letter. ...

This beautifully illustrated book is a wonderful sampler of classic dishes. Explore regional specialities as well as dishes that have become national favourites: pea & mint soup, asparagus with hollandaise sauce, roasted rib of beef, steak & kidney pudding, Bakewell tart, jam roly poly, & fruit trifle. Presented in over 100 beautiful & evocative photographs. ...

With A Taste of Home, Angela Hartnett brings her informal, grounded style of cooking into our kitchens. Drawing inspiration from her childhood experiences of accessible home cooking with her Italian grandmother, she mixes Mediterranean influences with European to create delectable recipes that are straightforward, quick & easy to make. Whether you want to cook a simple lunch or an after-work supper, Angela has a mouthwatering, easy recipe to satisfy your needs. If you just want a snack or a starter you can try Lamb Broth with Mint, or Goat's Curd & Lentil Salad. For main meals there are fresh twists on classic home dishes, such as Beef Stew with Butternut Squash & Red Onions, as well as more unusual dishes like Quail Salad with Harissa Dressing
- & some traditional Italian recipes including Sausage Rigatoni & Fennel. Those with a sweet tooth can indulge in Ginger & Passion Fruit Trifle or Chocolate Pecan Tart. With mouthwatering photography by Jonathan Lovekin, this is, simply put, an indispensable cookbook & an essential item on any home-cooking enthusiast's shelves.
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A Taste of the Country is a celebration of country living & how to get involved with the land & the food that you eat. As well as over 80 recipes for traditional British farmhouse dishes from shepherd's pie to rhubarb & strawberry crumble, there is information about gathering wild food, keeping chickens, growing salads, pickling, preserving & much more. Jimmy takes you from the farmyard & back garden, into the fields, hedgerows & woods & back to the kitchen, barbeque or open fire to prepare a feast of wild foods, home-grown produce & quality local ingredients. Whether you live in the town or in the countryside, the lifestyle captured here guarantees your very own taste of the good life. The book was first published in hardback in 2006. ...

Winner of the Guild of Food Writers Food Book of the Year Award 2011. Life is too short to grow ordinary food. Why bother spending time, effort & money growing the typical varieties of fruit & vegetables that you can easily buy locally & cheaply & which, crucially, taste pretty much the same whether home grown or shop bought? In A Taste of the Unexpected, River Cottage head gardener Mark Diacono reveals that it is no harder to grow the unusual & utterly delicious than it is the entirely ordinary. On his farm in Devon, Mark grows virtually nothing that you can buy in the supermarkets. There, instead of potatoes, onions & carrots you'll find gourmet delights such as kai lan, salsify, Chilean guava, day lilies & Szechuan pepper. Filled with practical growing advice & mouthwatering recipes, this inspirational book will encourage you to share Mark's sense of culinary adventure
- introducing you to the finest forgotten flavours, fabulous lesser-known harvests, the tastiest varieties of familiar crops, & the exotic foreign fruit that our changing climate now allows us to grow for ourselves. None of these requires any extra effort to grow than the usual suspects & all of them will bring new flavours & experiences into your garden & kitchen. Exciting & inspirational, A Taste of the Unexpected will redefine your approach to growing your own for good.
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This beautiful new book provides a tasty sampler of the country's cuisine, with more than 30 authentic recipes ranging from ...

This beautiful new book provides a tasty sampler of the country's cuisine, with more than 30 authentic recipes ranging from ...

A witty, entertaining & utterly unique look at the great explorers & the life-lessons we can draw from them. Exploration & explorers hold a constant fascination, with tales of heroism & the overcoming of great odds in the most inhospitable environments. The excitement over books on Shackleton & the abiding success of series such as Michael Palin's ' Pole to Pole', ? Around the World in 80 days' & ? Himalaya? demonstrate this amply. Add to this already compelling formula a touch of inspiration, in the lessons we can learn from the explorers in our everyday life & a spice of ' How to do Just about everything' in the bizarre & quirky lessons Mick Conefrey teaches us, such as how to cook an albatross or play football on an ice floe & the combination is unbeatable. The book takes as its structure the stages of a typical expedition from planning to setting out, finding your goal & surviving safely to get home. Packed with fascinating anecdotes about explorers such as Shackleton, Scott, Livingstone & Stanley, the book also teaches us instructive lessons about fund-raising, team-building, dealing with confrontations, whilst also dealing with less everyday problems, such as digging a latrine in permafrost or facing down a charging polar bear. With its combination of the serious & the bizarre, the inspirational & the hilarious, Teacup in a Storm will be an engagingly irresistible proposition. ' Teacup in a Storm' is a unique book. Witty, irreverent, debunking, entertaining & inspirational all in one competitively priced & handy format package. ...