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Book was described as "used" but looked in mint condition. Excellent value and v prompt delivery.

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Love this book! It helps me through the journey of converting our garden. Specially if you are new to gardening or you are trying to grow your own. This is the book for you. There is an introduction of each vegetable. A few different recipes of how you can cook it or what seasoning work with it. Also lots of mouth watering pictures!

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'Tender' by Nigel Slater is a familiar mix of great recipes, attractive illustrations, and relaxed observations. There's also lots of interesting advice about vegetable gardening. Sadly, this otherwise excellent book is spoilt by design features which I find annoying: a contents page laid out so that you have to twist your head to read the chapter headings then twist is back again to see the page numbers; ditto on every page (vegetable & page number at different orientations); page numbers in very small font; wherever the letters 'ct' appear, they are printed joined up; and poor proofreading - at least one mistake in the index. I continue to be a fan of Nigel Slater, but the design & editing of this book have - in my view - let him down.

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This book is full of beautiful photos and is inspirational. The recipes are creative, fun and have the Nigel Slater quality of encouraging experiment. They are not prescriptive and will inspire you to try something new when you get the feeling that you can't cope with a glut! It will help you choose varieties and gives brief hints and tips about growing. I love his relaxed, can't go wrong style.

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If you have any of Nigel Slater's other books and/or read his Observer column you'll know exactly what to expect here. Food writing with a level of excitement and enthusiasm that no other food writer I've come across can match. Slater adores his subject and has an unsurpassed ability to communicate his joy to the reader. Here he plays his usual, and excellent, trick of providing a wonderfully eclectic selection of uber-recipes. Uber -recipes? It is one of Slater's goals to encourage the cook to move on from slavishly following instructions to become more experimental and innovative, so each recipe is followed by a selection of variations and alternatives.

I always say that a cookery book was worth buying if I get one "standard" from it. One recipe which first becomes a regular "go to" and then becomes one of those recipes I know so well I don't have to go back to the book. This of course achieves this in spades. Some particular delights are a whole range of aubergine recipes, squid with greens and basil, Chinese broccoli with garlic and oyster sauce, a Vietnamese stir-fry, cabbage with beans coconut and coriander, chickpeas with pumpkin, lemongrass and coriander, the list is extensive. As with all of Slater's works, this is an omnivore's book, but there are enough non meat recipes to satisfy the pescatarian or the genuine vegetarian.

Each chapter of the book is devoted to a particular vegetable, firstly a typical piece of Nigel Slater writing, giving some personal context to the vegetable. Then a short section on where and how to grow it (yes, this is part gardening book, part cookery book), followed by a listing of other ingredients with which the vegetable works well, before moving on to the recipes themselves. I am not a gardener myself, but Slater's tips look sensible and straightforward and have got me planning my own vegetable patch for later in the year.

One other way I've found this book extremely useful is as a source of ideas for what to do with the contents of my veg box

So I recommend this book as a recipe book, as a dipping into book to read excerpts before going to sleep and as a vegetable gardeners reference book.

Excellent.