The first book from TV chef and farmer Julius Roberts. Offering simple rustic seasonal recipes and stories from his Dorset small-holding The Farm Table will appeal to buyers of Nigel Slater's The Kitchen Dairies (294k TCM) The Naked Chef and Jamie at Home and Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's River Cottage Cookbook (170k TCM) 'A heart-warming and uplifting book. The recipes are utterly gorgeous.' NIGEL SLATER Cook and eat your way to the good life with simple seasonal recipes. First-generation farmer and chef Julius Roberts shares honest tales of farming life and easy thoughtful dishes to reconnect us to nature and the seasons. Making the most of simple ingredients The Farm Table is unfussy home cooking at its very best. A few good things on a plate assembled with joy and ease. Recipes include: - winter: an elegant fuss-free dinner of roast pumpkin mozzarella hazelnuts and sage and a hearty sausage stew - spring: baked fish with herbs and asparagus chicken roasted over lemon fennel and potatoes and a lamb stew with pearl barley - summer: courgette pasta a ratatouille galette and a steamed apricot sponge - autumn: arrives with smoked haddock and leek rarebit and pan-fried trout with mash and spinach sauce. Passionate about seasonality Julius shows us how to make the most of produce from crisp crunchy apples in autumn pink rhubarb in winter asparagus in spring and the first summer strawberries.