A YEAR ON THE FARM

Recipes and stories from my Tasmanian tree change

by SALLY WISE

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New softcover book published 2014, 446 pages, measures 21 x 15 cm.

For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to have a cooking school

In 2012 renowned cook Sally Wise and her husband Robert moved from the home where they had raised their children to a farm in Tasmania's Derwent Valley. Here, among orchards full of fruit trees and a rapidly expanding household of aplacas, chickens and assorted others, Sally began to make plans to establish her long-dreamed of cooking school. And gathering bounty from the new farm, the surrounding markets, and her new neighbours, she started to cook ....

Sally has always wanted her own cooking school, and her own farm, where she could grow the things she wants to cook with. One day she and her husband came across a property in Tasmania's Derwent Valley with an orchard full of fruit trees, and a funny old chalet/cabin out the back. A plan began to take shape...In this, her latest book, Sally shares 250 recipes she's gathered over a year of growing, cooking, setting up school and house and managing an eccentric household of family and other animals. Like Sally's early best-seller, A Year in a Bottle, this is a charming portrait of tree-change and a cookbook to treasure.

Contents include:

• By way of explanation
• Introduction
• Cook's notes
• The Diary
• Epilogue
• Recipes for the fruit I didn't find this year
• Regarding produce
• Basic methods
• Troubleshooting chart for bottled (preserved fruits) and for jams, jellies, conserves etc

A Year on the Farm is an Australian publication. All measurements are in metric and metric cup & spoon. Sally shares over 250 delicious and easy recipes, as well as charming stories of daily life with her family and other animals.

About the author

Sally Wise is the bestselling author of A Year in a Bottle, Slow Cooker and 6 other books, and is a regular guest on ABC Local Radio in Tasmania. She is passionate about seasonal produce and creating exciting flavours from natural, readily available ingredients, and loves to share the cooking experience. She has taught children and adults of all ages and now has her own small cooking school in Tasmania - the Sally Wise Cooking School at Molesworth in the Derwent Valley. She runs classes on almost every style of cooking and is a firm advocate for using seasonal produce, which she transforms into delicious dishes and perfect preserves. Sally is also a regular cooking presenter for events at The Essential Ingredient and the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, as well as for many and varied community groups. She lives in Molesworth with her husband Robert and several stray animals.

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A Year on the Farm by Sally Wise