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"Simon Courtauld's beautifully written musings from ""The Spectator"" extolling the virtues of fish, poultry and feathered game are gathered into one elegant volume. In ""Food for Thought Fish and Feather: A Culinary Tour of Britain's Seas and Skies"", the author navigates sea and sky to provide illuminating culinary insights into seasonal produce; from pigeon to perch to grunting gurnards he enlightens us on which corners of the world, and their markets, you'll find the best-valued and best-flavoured morsels, and how to cook and eat them in style. Discover some outstanding recipes and their origins such as 'Txangurro' - a crab dish from the Basque country, 'Bestilla' - Moroccan pigeon pie, Octopus boiled in metal drums in Galicia, northern Spain, not to mention Haddock 'Monte Carlos' - said to have been invented for those tired and jaded after gambling in the casinos. You will also find out how to tell a carpet-shell clam from a smooth venus (and how to make them jump onto the sand when you catch them), why a monkfish's tail is so highly prized by Venetians and when and where to look forward to the annual crayfish run. ""Food for Thought: Fish and Feather"" highlights which beasts are under-appreciated (whiting, spider crab), over-priced (monkfish) and over-fished (cod). Balancing flavour and taste, health and ethics with equal panache, it is clear that foodies everywhere can learn a great deal from Simon Courtauld's hardworking taste buds and reap some tasty rewards."

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'There have been many coffee table books on the English landscape, but this one is special. The photographs are outstanding and breathtakingly evocative. The authors, drawn from a wide spectrum of our best writers, commentators, rural pundits, inspire on each page with fresh insights, Glancing through this book for the first time, I found myself arrested by image after image that drew me in to the next which, through the intense brief, passion of writing, then often brought tears to my eyes... The hidden message, refreshingly understated as one after another the myriad features of our landscape are celebrated, is that everything we love about rural England is under threat. It only lives because we love it, cherish it and, above all, work it. Again and again, we see man's benign influence. How tragic that today almost all our influences are malign. CPRE is the body which does that most to protect rural England. Buying this book helps it work, and is an excellent way to contribute.' Robin Hanbury-Tenison, Country Life, October 2006

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Simon Courtauld is a columnist for The Spectator and a published writer. He is the author of Border Life: Travels Between Mexico and the USA (1904027083).

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