Tender: Volume II: A Cook's Guide to the Fruit Garden

Organised alphabetically, each fruit is carefully considered in Slater’s inimitable, unhurried warm prose, to give you an instinctive understanding of our heritage garden fruits. Combining reminiscences from a lifetime spent working with and enjoying food, along with cultivation tips for the growing season, Slater shows you how to use seasonal fruits in simple suppers and indulgent desserts. Slater shows how the delicious flavours of fruits offer far more than simply being the inspiration for the occasional pot of jam, but are really the hidden gems in imaginative meat dishes and the backbone of successful home baking.

With over 200 recipe ideas and many wonderful stories from the fruit garden, Tender: Volume II — A cook’s guide to the fruit garden is the definitive guide to cooking with fruit from Britain’s finest food writer. ‘When I dug up my lawn to grow my own vegetables and herbs I planted fruit too. A handful of small trees – plum, apple and pear – some raspberry, blackberry and currant bushes and even strawberries in pots suddenly joined my patch of potatoes, beans and peas. These fruits became the backbone of my home baking, the stars in my cakes and pastries and even inspired the odd pot of jam. More than this, I started to use them in new ways too, from a weekday supper of pork chops with cider and apples to a Chinese Sunday roast with spiced plum sauce. The hot family puddings and fruit ices we had always loved so much suddenly took on a delicious new significance.’ Nigel Slater Author Biography Nigel Slater is the author of a collection of bestselling books, including the classics ‘Real Fast Food’ and ‘Real Cooking’, and the award-winning ‘Appetite’. He has written a much-loved column for ‘The Observer’ for over a decade. His autobiography, ‘Toast — the story of a boy’s hunger’, won six major awards, including the British Biography of the Year, the Glenfiddich Award and the Andre Simon Memorial Award. ‘The Kitchen Diaries’ won the Design and Production Award at the 2006 British Book Trade Awards.

Author Biography

Nigel Slater is one of Britain’s most highly regarded food writers. His beautifully written prose, warm personality and unpretentious, easy-to-follow recipes have won him a huge following. He writes an award winning weekly column in the ‘Observer’ and edits their ‘Food Monthly’ supplement, and he is a regular contributor to Sainsbury’s ‘The Magazine’.