"A delicious mouth-watering treat awaits, packed full of seasonal recipes this cookbook also soothes heart and soul with its loving family feel."
Simply delicious, the stories behind family, food, and love come together to create a really warm and friendly cookbook. I have so enjoyed falling in love with the story of Cannon Hall Farm through their collective books. Richard now joins others in the family with his first cookbook. He sums up his feelings for food in a way that really connected: “For me, food is not fuel, to be added to an engine. Food is generosity and warmth, fodder for the soul”. The story and recipes follow the seasons, as Richard says: “Nature’s harvest is a wonderful thing, we simply need to recognise and appreciate it when it comes along”. He has included not only much loved family and farm recipes, but also those from further afield. This has the feel of a gathering of proper family favourites, from simple dishes through to more complicated ones, meet the scones that saved the farm, roasted beetroot and red onions on whipped feta, and Cumberland ring toad in t’ole with red onion gravy. He adds handy notes alongside food memories, with colourful photos by Clive Chalice bringing the book to vibrant life. It’s the family friendly feel to this book that really makes it stand out, as well as the appreciation and love for tradition, it’s full of positivity and good vibes. Richard is honest about his journey, and how food has really helped him: “That’s what we believe in at Cannon Hall Farm, respect for those who came before us and hope and optimism for those who follow”. What gorgeous book this is, warming and inspiring, the Cannon Hall Farm Cookbook comes to you from a place of love, and it shows.
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With Cannon Hall Farm's first cookbook, Richard Nicholson, the regularly-watched cook of the family, brings together their favourite recipes using seasonal ingredients from the Farm, alongside stories and memories associated with the dishes.
A beautiful hardback, with fantastic photography, The Cannon Hall Farm Cookbook shares stories, family recipes and tempting dishes for every time of the year from the Nicholson farming calendar.
Richard says:
"Food has been a huge part of mine, and my family’s journey. Food is about search and discovery. Food is reward for curiosity. It is inspiration and enlightenment. Food has the power to transport us back through the decades. Smells, tastes and recipes can bring back people, places, and experiences from the past in vivid technicolour.
"At Cannon Hall Farm, we believe that food can be therapy.
"That the simplest of pleasures can be the most memorable and worthwhile. We all love sharing our family recipes, and writing this book has brought back memories of people who are no longer with us, but who have played a precious part in our journey. There’s nothing quite so evocative as food, and all families that love good food will have a well-thumbed, and much-loved recipe book. This is ours.
"This book is a journey into our family folklore, with tales from the past, alongside recipes that we’ve grown to love. A celebration of the dishes mum loved to cook when we were kids, through to the dishes inspired by her, and other friends and family, and on to those that I love to cook today. I hope this recipe book becomes food splattered, and dog eared, in the way that the best cookery books do. I hope that ragged pieces of paper, and hastily written notes nestle within its pages – bookmarks on your own food journey. I hope it becomes loved in the way we have loved the family and friends who played their part in it."
Cannon Hall Farm fans, and viewers of their Channel 5’s hit shows, Springtime on the Farm, This Week on the Farm and Cannon Hall: A Yorkshire Farm, will treasure this beautiful cookbook.
Cannon Hall Farm Cookbook features in the following genres: Non-Fiction Books of the Month, Cookery, Food and Drink, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure, Agriculture and farming, General cookery and recipes, TV / Celebrity chef / eateries cookbooks, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes, Agriculture and farming, General cookery and recipes, TV / Celebrity chef / eateries cookbooks
Cannon Hall Farm Cookbook is available in Hardback
Cannon Hall Farm Cookbook was written by Richard Nicholson and published by Mirror Books
Cannon Hall Farm Cookbook has 288 pages
£22.50
