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The Real Food Companion includes more than 200 recipes, with photography by Matthew's long-time friend and collaborator, Alan Benson. It is the result of Matthew's four decades as a writer, chef and farmer, and multiple years' research. And its core mission is teaching readers how to ethically source, cook and eat real food.

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'What's old is new again! Knowing where your food comes from is more important now than ever, for the health of our planet and ourselves. Mathew and his book are an integral and inspiring source of information on how to get started or keep going in the right direction.' Guy Jeffreys, Millbrook Winery 'Matthew Evans is the real deal. He talks the talk, walks the walk, and cooks the kind of food we could all use more of in our lives.' Alice Zaslavsky, author and broadcaster 'In a world where so many people are completely disconnected from where their food comes from, this book offers a bridge of connection. It's exactly what the world needs, more now than ever before.' Emma Galloway, author 'The Real Food Companion is a generous book that shows us how to untether from a corporate food system that has long controlled how we shop, cook and eat. By reclaiming and celebrating basic cooking skills and spotlighting simple but delicious base ingredients, Matthew Evans has made the kitchen a site of quiet protest and a space where we can all form new habits to create together the future of food. It's the kitchen companion I've been seeking, and I know it will become a stained, dog-eared and much-loved book before I hand it down to my child who is already following Evans' lead and finding pleasure in the sweet treats nature provides. It is a joyful and urgent book.' Nicola Harvey, farmer, podcaster and author 'A truly inspiring book to make you want to consider how you source your food, and cook beautifully achievable recipes with the seasons. Soil-to-stomach eating was the past but it is imperative that it be the future too. Food grown the right way to benefit the soil and your health.' Michael James, baker and author

'What's old is new again! Knowing where your food comes from is more important now than ever, for the health of our planet and ourselves. Mathew and his book are an integral and inspiring source of information on how to get started or keep going in the right direction.' Guy Jeffreys, Millbrook Winery Matthew Evans is the real deal. He talks the talk, walks the walk, and cooks the kind of food we could all use more of in our lives.' Alice Zaslavsky, author

'Real Food is not just delicious recipes, it's a beautiful combination of important food education for our future and a reminder to sit around the table with our friends, family and community to share nourishing meals and stories. This will be the book I give my big kids when they move out of home.' Alex Elliott-Howery, Cornersmith founder, cook and author 'Matt and I share the belief that what you eat and cook can be a transformative act for the good of the planet and your community. In The Real Food Companion, Matt makes that case very clear. The knowledge shared about modern agriculture and the practical skills you can use in your home kitchens to cook more ethically, responsibly and deliciously are second to none. This is the book we all need in our kitchens to not just remind us of the truth we are facing, but also to give us hope.' Danielle Alvarez, chef and author 'Matthew Evans' Real Food Companion is a wise, warm and lovely book full of advice from a father to his child that any parent would be proud to share with their children. Food as a life lesson has seldom been so moving.' William McInnes, actor and author 'A salivating reminder on why what and how we eat can help shape a food culture that nourishes us and the earth.' Hannah Maloney, author, permaculture designer and teacher 'Matthew Evans teaches without preaching. He writes without dithering. And he knows what great food is. You'll read this from cover to cover!' Recipe Tin Eats' Nagi Maehashi, cook, writer and author 'This book is for the chef as much as the home cook. Matthew's talent for making the raw produce accessible to the reader is second to none.' Ross O'Meara, chef, game hunter and author 'Country folk often gauge each other's kitchen skills over their batch of scones or seasoning of a humble roast chook, which are the first recipes I'm drawn to in these seductive pages. Mathew's buttermilk / powdered milk combo in scones makes total sense and his slowly caramelised onions and yoghurt he rubs all over his free-range chook, an even extra loving hug. This book is packed with wise-old-bugger tips - take the refreshingly simple technique of making your own mascarpone - that all underpin Matthew's true commitment to agrarian living and cooking from the land.' Sean Moran, Seans Panorama, chef and author 'The Real Food Companion is a must read for anyone interested in how to ethically source, prepare, and eat real produce. It's a great resource that I always recommend to my team.' Peter Gilmore, Quay, chef and author 'What an important addition to our family kitchen - this book is both a masterful celebration of basic, local ingredients and also a crucial rallying cry to eat like it matters, in a world out of balance. The glorious fundamentals of real food, coupled with the why AND the how of cooking it with love.' Kirsten Bradley, Milkwood founder and author 'What a wonderful, gritty. generous gift to the world (and Hedley!) Before simplicity comes complexity and although Matthew writes in a way that talks to our own uncomplicated monologue, he can only do so because he has clearly taken the time to understand the deeply complex patterns that underpin our food system, our primal need to connect to the earth and the rebuilding of culture through food we know the provenance of. He writes without complication but from a place that knows the need for swift action by all of us and what better way to convince us than through food as the storyteller. If we consider our role as current day decision makers but ancestral thinkers, a book like this is just the tome to kick us into action.' Jade Miles, author, podcaster and farmer 'What's old is new again! Knowing where your food comes from is more important now than ever, for the health of our planet and ourselves. Mathew and his book are an integral and inspiring source of information on how to get started or keep going in the right direction.' Guy Jeffreys, Millbrook Winery 'Matthew Evans is the real deal. He talks the talk, walks the walk, and cooks the kind of food we could all use more of in our lives.' Alice Zaslavsky, author and broadcaster 'In a world where so many people are completely disconnected from where their food comes from, this book offers a bridge of connection. It's exactly what the world needs, more now than ever before.' Emma Galloway, author 'The Real Food Companion is a generous book that shows us how to untether from a corporate food system that has long controlled how we shop, cook and eat. By reclaiming and celebrating basic cooking skills and spotlighting simple but delicious base ingredients, Matthew Evans has made the kitchen a site of quiet protest and a space where we can all form new habits to create together the future of food. It's the kitchen companion I've been seeking, and I know it will become a stained, dog-eared and much-loved book before I hand it down to my child who is already following Evans' lead and finding pleasure in the sweet treats nature provides. It is a joyful and urgent book.' Nicola Harvey, farmer, podcaster and author 'A truly inspiring book to make you want to consider how you source your food, and cook beautifully achievable recipes with the seasons. Soil-to-stomach eating was the past but it is imperative that it be the future too. Food grown the right way to benefit the soil and your health.' Michael James, baker and author 'Matthew Evans writes with the passion of a man possessed. Possessed by all the good things. A care for hospitality, a call for generosity and a plea to embrace the environmental and regenerative farming practices that can make a huge difference to our future. He's a good man, Matthew Evans.' Annie Smithers, Du Fermier, chef and author 'I had the good fortune of having access to nothing but this book while camping among the rolling hills of Gippsland, Victoria's beef country. Reading it in the wilderness really made me think about my surroundings, of produce quality and of simple, yet well prepared, food. So much so that I ended up feeding the insatiable urge to cook a piece of locally sourced steak over my camp fire once I was able to put the book down.' Thi Le, Anchovy, chef

Author Information

Matthew Evans is a chef and food critic turned farmer-food activist. He lives on a mixed farm that occupies a one-time apple orchard in the Huon Valley outside Hobart with his partner Sadie Chrestman and son Hedley. He is nationally best known for his long-running SBS series Gourmet Farmer (six seasons), set on Fat Pig Farm's 70 acres, but also was the star of food documentaries What's the Catch? and For the Love of Meat. He has authored or co-authored 13 books on food, and is regularly interviewed on radio about all things to do with farming, growing, soil and eating. He has capitalised on his broad appeal hosting weekly farmhouse feasts and on-site cooking classes, which are often booked out months ahead. He is beloved of television audiences but also widely respected in the food world as someone who lives his truth - giving up the apparently coveted life of a Sydney food critic to create something real and meaningful with Sadie on their small parcel of land in southern Tasmania.

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