This reasonably priced hamper gives you the perfect introduction to the many fine foods available from within the boundaries of England's Lake District county.

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'Winter is the most special time of the year for fans of gastronomy. Rich, tasty foods, plenty of opportunities to host dinner parties and so many different selections in both food and wine to choose from.

 

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Many people are unfamiliar with the rough and ready approach of a true Cumbrian country man. If that is the case W.M.W. Fowlers Countryman’s Cooking would better be described as tales from a no nonsense kitchen, or better still food without fuss. If your kitchen is more accustomed to mess than shipshape military precision then this book will read like a welcome homecoming. However, if you are the type who meticulously works away at creating painstaking culinary masterpieces then this is also the book for you. It may just feel like a breath of fresh country air to find good food is just as successfully achieved with Tin Snips and the hinge of a door than a Moulin and a Kitchen Torch.

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At 75, Frank Chamberlain is still as strong as an ox, lugging hefty lobster pots from his shack in Ravenglass, just a stone’s throw from the water’s edge or stacking them up in the back garden of his small cottage just a few yards behind - a cottage whose front door, with the coiled rope mat, is almost hidden by a Secret Garden-like tangled web of flowers and foliage.

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