In this enormous and beautiful book, Sarah Raven takes us through the year with delicious recipes for every holiday and event in the calendar, from Easter lunches and summer picnics to camping feasts around the fire, Hallowe'en parties and Christmas. Sarah's tempting recipes capture the delights of every season, and include Spinach and pine nut tart, Spring lamb with the first spring vegetables, Chocolate mousse with baked rhubarb, Apricot jam with fluffy bread rolls, Crunchy courgette with green mayonnaise, Blackcurrant-filled Victoria sponge, Sage stuffed Butternut Squash, Home-made ginger beer and Twelfth Night Cake. Stylish and gorgeously illustrated with photographs by Jonathan Buckley, this book is a joyous celebration of both the countryside and of fantastic food, and one that you'll turn to for inspiration again and again.

Author Biography

Sarah Raven is a broadcaster, teacher and writer. She has made regular appearances on Gardeners' World, the BBC's flagship gardening programme; she runs her own cookery and gardening school at Perch Hill in East Sussex; and she is the author of The Cutting Garden, Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook (which was the Guild of Food Writers Cookery Book of the Year 2008) and Sarah Raven's Complete Christmas. Jonathan Buckley specialises in garden and plant photography and has been working with Sarah Raven, taking photographs at Perch Hill, for ten years. He was awarded the title Garden Writers' Guild Features Photographer of the Year in 2004.