An Island Food Mile - a commonplace book of St Agnes
£17.50
From a big sea and a small island... St Agnes, Isles of Scilly is a place of great self-sufficiency. An Island Food Mile celebrates the local produce and food of this remarkable place in recipes, poems, essays, drawings and even music. Piers has lived, cooked and written on St Agnes for twenty years - this book is a personal record of that time, centred around food and home.
Postage to the UK is included.
Postage to the UK is included.
The St Agnes Food Mile
1.

The issue of food miles is a modern and thorny one - green beans from Kenya, strawberries from Mexico, asparagus from Peru: right or wrong? On St Agnes, however, we are ridiculously fortunate in being able to acquire most of our fresh produce from within walking distance.
As a cook, like a hungry spider, I sit at the centre of my Island web - alert to every movement: Kit and Harry Legg returning from sea with another batch of fresh lobsters caught on the Western Rocks; Tonya restocking the Tamarisk organic vegetable stall with beautiful firm aubergines and bunches of fragrant, leafy basil; a Troytown beef animal that has made the transition from munching and mooing on the Wingletang Downs to oven-ready deliciousness...
As a cook, like a hungry spider, I sit at the centre of my Island web - alert to every movement: Kit and Harry Legg returning from sea with another batch of fresh lobsters caught on the Western Rocks; Tonya restocking the Tamarisk organic vegetable stall with beautiful firm aubergines and bunches of fragrant, leafy basil; a Troytown beef animal that has made the transition from munching and mooing on the Wingletang Downs to oven-ready deliciousness...
6.

For pudding, a rich, warm lavender chocolate tart (Island butter in the pastry of course) with ice cream. With a spoonful of those plump raspberries drizzled with honey on the side of the plate, and the only noises outside those of birds and sea, I don’t believe anyone, anywhere can be eating better than this.
Cooking by Piers, art work by Rachel
Cooking by Piers, art work by Rachel