This ambitious book is a rare thing – a series of human and humane stories; a philosophical journey; a celebration of nature and season and soil, and a gathering of inspiring conversations with food pioneers, conscious chefs, health experts and earth activists, including Dr Vandana Shiva, Satish Kumar, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Isabella Tree and Dr Alanna Collen (author of 10% Human: How your body’s microbes hold the key to health and happiness).
Interspersed among these riches, you’ll find recipes that follow the season… simplest plates such as Cabbage and Bean Soup or Radish Pickles with Garden Herbs sit alongside special dinners like Ale-braised Short Ribs (the pastured cattle, reared on Isabella Tree’s Knepp Estate) and Baked Lemon & Dill Norfolk Trout.
Words of wisdom abound; we’ll end with some of Satish Kumar’s: “The soil is a metaphor for entire natural systems. If we take care of the soil, the soil will take care of us all.”
Recipes to Reconnect: Food and conversations to re-establish the relationship between nature, food and self by Anna Boglione (Octopus Books).
