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For conditions, please view our photographs. A nice clean rare copy from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG. Jack founded the Midsummer House, Cambridge’s paramount restaurant. This dining experience is hidden amongst the grassy pastures and grazing cattle of Midsummer Common and perched on the banks of the River Cam. 

Jack modelled much of his personal life on the precepts he found within this very book. 

This text brings together the two passions of the author: cookery and gardening. Christopher Lloyd describes how he grows and cooks fruit, vegetables, salad plants and herbs and asserts that if one grows food for flavour, it ought then to be cooked to bring out the best flavour.

Review: I bought this when it was first published and dipped into it again when I bought a copy for my son for Christmas. This is totally original writing owing nothing to other authors. Fun to read, well written, thought provoking (even controversial at times) and I can’t believe anyone would read this without learning something. I cannot recommend it too highly.

Christopher Lloyd was among the best informed, liveliest, most worthwhile gardening writers of our time and the author of a host of classics. He lived in Northiam, East Sussex and died in January 2006.