The Farm Table: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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The chapters run seasonally with wintery tastes like elegant, fuss-free dinner of roast pumpkin, mozzarella, hazelnuts and sage, and a hearty sausage stew. He spent time at Noble Rot, the celebrated wine bar and restaurant in Bloomsbury’s Lambs Conduit Street, learning to season, taste, tidy and keep up with the flow of the kitchen. Even in winter, though, life looks like a rural fantasy on the cook, farmer, and gardener’s English smallholding (a British term for farmstead).

His mind wandered to those formative experiences, “hands in the mud, hiding in the woods, foraging with Granny,” and, after a gruelling period, “all of that instinctual stuff just kicked in quite hard. Having studied sculpture in Brighton, he moved to the capital and cut his teeth in the high-pressure world of kitchens. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. Just bought this book for my daughter who had seen a couple of recipes on television – having taken a look through myself, I will be saving some ideas before I gift her the book! Wet, cold and rosy cheeked after a day of sheep husbandry in the elements, is there a better feeling than coming back to the warmth of a fire with a brothy stew gently simmering on the stove and wafting through the house.Broken into sections based on the season, The Farm Table encourages cooking with seasonality in mind through scrumptious recipes to inspire joy and confidence in the kitchen. There’s stunning photography from the world’s top garden photographers, as well as insightful writing from experts. This week, Gilly is with Lynn Cassells who with her partner Sandra Baer are two of the most inspiring women you’re likely to hear on Cooking the Books this year.

His debut cook book The Farm Table is a beautifully written story of a young man following his dream from cheffing to farming, with goats who think they’re dogs, pigs begging for a tummy tickle and an idyllic walk through the seasons. This week, Gilly's with the king of Tik Tok, the idol of Insta and star of channel 5’s A Taste of the Country, Julius Roberts. Rich in flavour with a melt-in-the-mouth texture and crunchy crackling, it is a truly exceptional roast. I initially thought that it would be "just a regular cook book" (which is something I would've been fine with, since I love his recipes), but this book is so much more.A fierce guardian of nature, she planted over 2,000 trees and listed the farm under a stewardship scheme with the local wildlife trust. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. In Spring, my focus is on lambing, I’m out checking the sheep late into the night with a headtorch and up early to be there for any Ewes that have trouble giving birth, any spare time I’m planting seeds in the greenhouse and getting the veg patch ready for a busy growing season ahead!