Cookery books are team efforts and this is no exception. It is the product of incredible hard work by a group of wonderful women I feel lucky to know.
To Rowan at Square Peg for your conviction, and Susannah, Natalie and the rest of the team for your added enthusiasm. I am so grateful you wanted to make this book. Thank you Claudia at Greene & Heaton for getting the ball rolling! And Eleanor and Cate at Pearson Lyle for your patience and continued friendship while I wrote.
Charlotte, your elegant design looks incredible and we are all so grateful for your hard work. Lucy, thank you for all your time and patience; I can’t imagine a better, or wiser, editor.
Emma, Lizzie and Tabitha always bring such joy and talent to a shoot. Thank you for your tireless hard work creating the beautiful images and the laughs we had. You wear those aprons so well, badgers.
Special thanks to you Emma, for the Forest House and its magical light. To Isla, for amazing help with the shoot recipes and to Poppy for such thorough and enthusiastic testing help. Thanks to my family, and to Chris, chief non-vegetarian-taste-tester, for patiently tolerating my endless testing and writing. x