Larder: From pantry to plate - delicious recipes for your table

Absolutely stunning.This is not your average cookbook. There’s a passion throughout the pages, down the spine and the recipes.It’s straightfoward, organic, and very insightful.If you want to learn the basics of pickling, fermention or just how to make cultured butter for instance, it’s in there.Everything that you need to improve your larder at home, or in a restaurant, this book has the information for you.Buy it. Appreciate it. Pass it on.

Not for the beginner, but one worth investing in and aspiring to follow recipes from if you are someone looking to up your culinary game. Definitely an inspiration.

I have vacuum sealed my recipe book in 2% if it’s weight in salt and then replaced it with this book. Excellent purchase.

I really love "The Dairy" in Clapham for its wonderful and creativ up-to-date food. So I was looking forward to receiving this book by Robin Gill.Although it looks much like a love affair for the author and his team it's very likely that it's useless at home. All recipes are extremly complex and difficult. The vast majority of them needs special ingredients. When it comes to the mouthwatering pudding section in the book things even get worse: Most ice-creams include ingredients like "Trimoline" or "Sosa Pro Crema Cold 100". Searching for the later one you notice that Sosa sells this stuff in 3kg pots but you only need 30g for ice-cream... This really doesn't make any sense for doing things like this at home!Complex recipes for home cooks also need timelines for doing these at home. What can I prepare well in advance? What to do at the very last moment? Gill doesn't give any advice on this either. See how "The Square"-cookbooks do it and you know what I mean."Larder" is a nice read or a fine book for the coffeetable but most useless even for an ambitious home cook.

I am a professional chef so best to read this review with that in mind. When I buy a book I am not looking for complete recipes. I'm looking for parts of the jigsaw and inspiration. A dish in a book can click with me and inspire a whole new dish, different to the one in the book. Likewise if there is a great recipie for a garnish with one dish in the book we can use it for something else. This book is full of ideas on preserving and as the name suggests is all about stocking your larder. It then goes on to give lovely recipes for many dishes, we have tried the chicken liver pate recipie and have to say it is one of the best I have done, the flavour and texture is superb. Things are done properly in this book and therfore maybe a little to much at home. Probably more occasional dinners than work night suppers. To sum up. If you are looking for something a little different with great base recipes then go for it. If you are looking for a quick tea then probably best keep looking.

I have been more interested in the larder/stores section within the Larder book as I am a great preserver and always look to prolong my harvest period and add value. This year friends and family are getting homemade preserves and pickles as gifts and this book provides food for thought and...well, delicious options for eatin'

Very complex not suitable for a domestic chef

book contans all sorts of new processes like fermentation & receipes excellent