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.