Kitchen garden experts - Cinead McTernan

Kitchen Garden Experts features the chefs and gardeners at twenty of the UK's most exciting restaurants, hotels, pubs and cafes, focussing on how they produce the best fruit and vegetables to appear on their menus.

With this book you can:

• Explore the kitchens and gardens of twenty celebrated chefs, from, Sir Terrance Conran and Raymond Blanc to River Cottrage and L'Enclume
• Gain extraordinary access to 20 recipe books and 40 signature dishes
• Discover key ingredients and special growing methods that help these chefs win awards for excellence
• Follow the simple steps from plot to plate, learning new growing skills
• Savour the flavour of fresh local produce – either at your own table or by visiting the restaurants themselves

Twenty featured chefs include:

Raymond Blanc & Anne-Marie Owens at Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, Gill Meller at River Cottage Sir Terence Conran at Barton Court, Simon Rogan at L'Enclume, Tom Lewis at Monachyle Mhor, Jack Stein at Padstow Kitchen Garden, Ruthie Rogers at River Caf, Skye Gyngell at Heckfield Place.

JASON INGRAM is an award-winning garden and food photographer and CINEAD McTERNAN is a horticulturally trained writer abnd gardening editor of The Simple Things magazine.RAYMOND BLANC OBE has been a restauranteur since 1977, and has nurtured the talents of scores of the world's finest chefs in his kitchens and kitchen gardens. Raymond was recently awarded an OBE in recognition of his efforts to promote culinary excellence.

'The prose is workmanlike and dense with information…beautifully photographed'

‘a well-laid out and practical book, featuring beautiful photography by Jason Ingram'