Delia's Kitchen Garden: A Beginners' Guide To Growing And Cooking Fruit And Vegetables

by Delia Smith

Follow a year in the life of Delia’s kitchen garden while creating your own organic garden. With 56 enticing recipes and 300 colour photographs, it’s sure to be a labour of love.

Delia Smith is Britain’s bestselling food author whose priority has always been the quality and flavour of the ingredients she uses — and nothing comes fresher than produce from your own garden. So when the opportunity arose for her to work with garden expert Gay Search and create her own kitchen garden, she seized the chance.
This beginner’s guide, now in paperback, is for anyone interested in good food — free from pesticides — and who wants to try their hand at growing their own.

NO EXPERIENCE REQUIRED. Delia devotes a chapter to each month, with detailed advice on sowing and planting, fruit and vegetable varieties, and how to harvest. With Delia’s failsafe recipes, which use the produce at its peak, this is a wonderful book for novice horticulturists and cooks of all levels.

Genres: Cookbooks

Hardcover

First published February 1, 2007

About the author

Delia Smith CBE is an English cook and television presenter, known for teaching basic cookery skills in a no-nonsense style. She is the UK's best-selling cookery author, with more than 21 million copies sold.

Smith is also famous for her role as joint majority shareholder at Norwich City F.C. Her partner in the shareholding is her husband, Michael Wynn-Jones. Her role at the club has attracted varying media attention, from positive when she "saved" the club from bankruptcy, to negative, when making a controversial on-pitch announcement in 2005.

Already an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), Smith was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours, "in recognition of ... [her] contribution to television cookery and recipe writing".

Reviews

[Joani]

I love this book for many reasons, some of them have nothing to do with how good the book actually is, so you might want to knock a few stars off to compensate for bias. You see, this book was written by a British gardener and a British chef and is about the chef's walled kitchen garden and how they made it perfect. The garden has raised beds, lots of old brick, espalier trees, a green house, I think you get the picture. It is basically my dream garden, in the land I practically worship (anglophiles unite!), so yeah, I am a bit biased. It's a, "you had me at walled kitchen garden" kind of thing. However, even without my British leanings, there are many elements I like about this book. To start, it has many gorgeous, large and small photographs and while some are basically eye candy, most are very helpful snapshots of the garden. I also find the format of the book helpful, as it goes month-by-month, explaining what the garden is doing and what you should be doing as the year marches on. In addition, after a gardening chapter for each month, there is a chapter of garden-fresh recipes by the chef, Delia Smith. For me, this book ticks all the boxes, it's beautiful, informative, well-oraganized and, most of all, inspiring!

[Janet]

A birthday gift from my hubby as we will have our vegetable garden together.