Good Things - Jane Grigson

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Résumé :
A timeless celebration of seasonal, locally sourced ingredients, Jane Grigson's classic recipes champion fresh, sustainable food.

This is one of Jane Grigson's greatest collections of recipes for delicious things to eat from the freshest and finest ingredients. This new hardback edition is being reissued because it is Jane Grigson's celebration of the seasons and the foods they bring, and seasonality is now the top priority of all those who take their eating and cooking seriously. She says in the Introduction to the original edition published in 1971, ...I feel that delight lies in the seasons and what they bring us...the strawberries that come in May and June straight from the fields, the asparagus of a special occasion, kippers from Craster in July and August, the first lamb of the year from Wales. This is good food...The encouragement of fine food is not greed or gourmandise...

Biographie:
Meat and Game - meat pies, salting meat, snails, sweetbreads, rabbit and hare, pigeon, venison...

Sommaire:
it can be seen as an aspect of the anti-pollution movement in that it indicates concern for the quality of environment. People in many parts of the country run restaurants specializing in locally produced food, salmon from the Tamar, laver and sewin from the Welsh sea, snails from the Mendips, venison from the moors of Inverness.

How prophetic she was when she pointed out to us the importance of locally-produced, fresh food and she wrote those words over half a century ago! The book is divided into sections covering Fish - kippers, lobster, mussels and scallops, trout...