With characteristic anecdotal charm, these new books from Nigel Slater offer a definitive guide to seasonal fruits and vegetables. Organised alphabetically, the entries in his inimitable unhurried prose combine ideas and recipes together with his personal reminiscences and celebration of our food heritage. Each also contains 250 colour photographs. He will be doing much to promote With over 400 recipe ideas and many wonderful stories from the cook’s garden, Tender: Volume I – A cook and his vegetable patch, is the definitive guide to cooking with vegetables from the presenter of BBC One’s Simple Cooking.