The lost orchard : a French chef rediscovers a great British food heritage / stories and recipes by Raymond Blanc ; [illustrations by Clare Melinsky].
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Headline, 2019Description: xii, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:- 1472267583
- 9781472267580
- TX811 .B63 2019
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Lending Books | Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves | SB354.6.G7 B52 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39352800181158 |
Includes indexes.
Over the past seven years, Raymond Blanc has planted an orchard of 2,500 trees in the grounds of his hotel-restaurant in Oxfordshire. Yielding about 30 tonnes of fruit for his kitchen each year, it is full of ancient and forgotten varieties of British apples and pears, along with walnut trees, quince, medlars, apricots, nectarines, peaches, plums, damsons and cherries. A further 600 heritage fruit trees have been added from Raymond's home region of Franche-Comte in France. The Lost Orchard is a love letter to each of these varieties, complete with beautiful black and white drawings, photographs of Belmond Le Manoir and fascinating information and anecdotes about each fruit, along with recipes and stories.