Whether you are looking to include more veg in your diet, moving to a vegan or meat-free lifestyle, or looking for some flavour inspiration for your dishes, this is a vegetarian cookbook with a difference – giving you the confidence and knowledge to safely prepare and cook the edible parts of seasonal vegetables.

– Covers more than 60 vegetables organised by seasonality
– Over 135 delicious vegetarian recipes for you to enjoy – including main meals, light lunches and sides
– Detailed information on plant varieties with annotated photographs displaying the edible parts of each vegetable
– Learn the best way to prepare, store, and preserve your favourite veg
– Handy zero-waste top tips and practical tricks throughout to make your vegetables last longer
– Sustainable leftover solutions from stocks, and drying techniques to pickling, fermenting, and roasting

James Strawbridge showcases more than 60 vegetables, season by season, exploring each plant’s unique characteristics, different varieties, and how best to prepare produce in your kitchen. An advocate of zero-waste cooking, James also shares how you can make use of all that’s edible from root to bloom with ideas on preserving and storing.

Rustle up one of James’ family favourites – a warming fennel gratin for a cosy autumn evening meal; watercress, pear, and walnut tart; or even cucumber peel gin, and discover how the humble vegetable can deliver utmost flavour all year round.

A refreshing take on the classic recipe book, The Complete Vegetable Cookbook is a staple in the kitchen or a fantastic gift for food lovers and allotment growers alike!

Complete the Series

Discover more from James Strawbridge in The Artisan Kitchen: The science, practice and possibilities providing modern twists to age-old preservation, fermentation and cooking techniques. Or, why not join Dick Strawbridge, of Channel 4’s Escape to the Chateau, and his son James on a journey to reduce your carbon footprint in Practical Self-sufficiency: The complete guide to sustainable living today.

DK brings you an all-encompassing cookbook to help you rediscover traditional much-loved culinary skills for the creative and contemporary cook! Unlike a lot of cookbooks on the market, this is a cookbook for people who like to cook beyond the everyday, those who believe cooking is an expression of artistry, and a way to reconnect with ingredients and delicate processes. Sound like something you’d enjoy?
Then this may be the book for you!

With passion in every page, you can explore:

-Each kitchen project is divided into three stages: The Theory, The Practice, The Possibility
-DIY projects to show you how to make your own hard-to-come-by equipment
-Topics reference the latest health and food trends on the market.

Popular TV presenter and author James Strawbridge explores a range of techniques and tips to help you revolutionise your relationship with food, giving a modern twist to old-age techniques and encouraging creativity and craftiness in the kitchen. The ideal cookbook for those who would like to escape their kitchen and perhaps plan a new culinary project. Whether it’s a sourdough starter or culturing kefir, rigging an open spit roast or campfire cooking, The Artisan Kitchen has something for everyone to discover.

Acting as a compendium of culinary projects, The Artisan Kitchen is explored in three stages to maximise your potential and spark your creativity. Starting off with ‘The Science’ which explains the technical know-how of the featured recipes and processes, followed by ‘The Practice’ to get you started on enticing recipes with action shots of tricky techniques, and finally ‘The Possibilities’ to provide further recipe ideas as well as the tools and inspiration to devise your own recipes.

If cooking is your creative passion, and you’re looking for a treasury of innovative ideas and riveting recipes then this is a must-have volume for you!