'A love letter to Mother Earth and entertaining must-read that goes to the heart of our survival' Charles Massy.'A love letter to Mother Earth and entertaining must-read that goes to the heart of our survival' Charles Massy, author of Call of the Reed Warbler. Perfect for fans of Wilding by Isabella Tree.What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves.Soil is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling her...

A powerful, entertaining and, at times, eviscerating commentary on the most controversial of original superfoods.'[An] entertaining and deeply informative crusade into the human obsession we call milk and a vigorous argument for us to keep drinking it.' Dan Barber'A rich dive into milk and the bounties it offers.' Dr Norman Swan'A revelation. Educational, relevant and eye-opening.' Nagi Maehashi, RecipeTin E...

A group of volunteers begged, borrowed and remortgaged a house on their way to convincing FIFA to hand them the keys to the 1994 World Cup. When they got the green light, the USA was tasked with presenting the greatest show on earth to a nation of non-believers, with a press corps just waiting for them to fail. Six years later, the country famed for its glitz, glamour and razzmatazz delivered a glorious summer of memorable kits and billowing goal nets, confounding the doubters as they shat...

A scorching manifesto on the ethics of eating meat by the best placed person to write about it - farmer and chef Matthew Evans, aka The Gourmet Farmer.'Compelling, illuminating and often confronting, On Eating Meat is a brilliant blend of a gastronome's passion with forensic research into the sources of the meat we eat. Matthew Evans brings his unflinching honesty - and a farmer's hands-on experience - to the question of how to be an ethical carnivore.' Hu...

Parmenides and the Origin of Metaphysics offers a novel and comprehensive solution to one of the oldest interpretive puzzles in the history of ancient Greek philosophy: the so-called "problem of the Doxa." This puzzle arises out of an apparent conflict between the main part of Parmenides' poem, called "the Aletheia," and the cosmological part, called "the Doxa." Whereas in the Aletheia he seems to argue that nothing is generated, divided, or cha...

Enjoy the seasons and give in to the wintery sweet temptations from 'Gourmet Farmer' Matthew Evans.Join chef, food critic and author of the hugely successful food bible, The Real Food Companion, Matthew Evans, as he embraces winter with a lip- smacking selection of puddings and sweet treats.Recipes include: Steamed cumquat marmalade pudding; Caramel pear upside-down cake; Date, honey and ginger cake; Brown sugar hazelnut biscuits; Eccles cakes; A very good, very chocolaty c...

Former chef and food critic Matthew Evans shows us how to preserve when the bounty is at its peak.Not Just Jam is gourmet farmer Matthew Evans's ode to the surplus of the seasons -- a collection of more than 90 modern recipes for old-fashioned preserving methods. Not just for those with their own orchard, but also for those passionate about flavour. For the freegan, who scours the suburbs looking for fruit trees whose bounty is overlooked by others. For th...

Join chef, food critic and author of the hugely successful food bible, The Real Food Companion, Matthew Evans, as he embraces winter with more than 85 warming recipes - from Winter Potato and Bacon Soup, and Stout, Beef Shin and Mushroom Pie to an exceptionally delicious Kentish Cherry and Elderflower Fruit Pudding. Matthew grows much of his own produce on his farm in Tasmania, also the setting for his popular SBS TV series The Gourmet Farmer, where he cooks these cosy feasts on h...

Welcome to Summer on Fat Pig Farm, where the garden prospers, the berries ripen and the aroma of fresh herbs lingers in the air.Summer is the season of surplus, a time when the sun is high and the cooking is easy. Dig in to indulgent waffles with salty butterscotch pears. Enjoy a rustic farm meal of cider chicken or zucchini and buffalo mozzarella lasagne, while sipping white peach and mint sangria. Finish with vanilla-poached nectarines or raspberry cake drizzled with elderflower ...

Gourmet Farmer Matthew Evans and producers Nick Haddow and Ross O'Meara share their favourite deli recipes. Enjoy food as it used to taste.Why would you go to the effort of make your own cheese, clotted cream or yoghurt? It's quite simple, really - because it tastes better.This collection of recipes celebrates the artisan process in making items you'd typically find in your local deli and provides simple, delicious recipes where those ingredients are the stars of simple, fl...

Cosy up this winter with delicous warming lunch recipes from 'Gourmet Farmer' Matthew Evans.Join chef, food critic and author of the hugely successful food bible, The Real Food Companion, Matthew Evans, as he embraces winter with a great selection of hearty, warming lunches.Recipes include: Beer, cheese and onion soup; Cawl; Sausage and white bean soup; Michelle's sweet spiced oxtail and parsnip soup; Pea, ham and lemon soup; Mussels with white wine and chorizo; Pumpkin and...

"Intellectually thrilling - a book that challenges both vegans and carnivores in the battle for a new ethics of eating. This book will leave you surprised, engrossed and sometimes shocked - whatever your food choices." RICHARD GLOVERHow can 160,000 deaths in one day constitute a 'medium-sized operation'?Think beef is killing the world? What about asparagus farms? Or golf?Going vegan might be all the rage, but the fact is the world has an ever-growing, insatiable appeti...