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MY VEGETABLE COOKBOOKS

Recently presented with a glut of courgettes and having pickled, roasted and grated them into most supper dishes, I was badtemperedly leafing through the kitchen bookshelves when Christopher Trotter’s Courgettecame to hand. It lightened the mood instantly. Succinct, knowledgeable and eminently useful when presented with a glut, Trotter’s individual vegetable books are indispensible to the cook keen not to let a harvest go to waste.

Trotter, a chef andhas continued with , , , , now .

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