The Commons: A Year of Growing, Cooking and Eating on Fat Pig Farm

(Hardback)

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We all want more air in our lives. Brighter skies, slower days, more time for growing, for cooking, for family. InThe Commons, a book inspired by the hit SBS television show Gourmet Farmer, Matthew Evans captures Fat Pig Farms year of growing, cooking and feasting. Its part how-to, part evocative diary, part cookbook (with more than 100 recipes). Its the perfect inspiration for those about to embark on a simpler life, a handy reference for those who already have done just that, and a vicarious solution for those who just want to dream the dream without leaving home.

Author Bio

Matthew Evans is the co-owner with his partner Sadie Chrestman of Fat Pig Farm, a 70 acre mixed holding that grows food for their on-farm restaurant in Southern Tasmania. A chef by trade, hes fronted six series ofGourmet Farmeron SBS TV, along with documentariesWhats the CatchandFor the Love of Meat. For the last two decades hes written for magazines, newspapers and guide books and is the author of a dozen books on food, as well as two memoirs. When hes not writing or cooking, Matthew fattens pigs, helps tend a garden, home-brews cider and milks two full cream dairy cows.