Turnips' Edible Almanac: The Week-by-week Guide to Cooking with Seasonal Ingredients

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While ambitious chefs might not be too interested in Oliver’s recipe for banoffee pie, they will be interested in Foster’s insights into the fruit and vegetable business.

The collection of over 100 recipes is mostly written by the Turnips Restaurant’s very own head chef, Tomas Lidakevicius, as well as Fred’s family members and friends within the industry, including some celebrity chefs such as Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver and the Galvin brothers. This is a man that knows his stuff, having supplied top-end produce to restaurants for over 30 years.Turnips’ Edible Almanac is a comprehensive guide to seasonality intermixed with recipes and anecdotes sourced from some of the best in the business. If you are interested in the history of our local area why not sign up to our regular newsletter which contains lots of fascinating historical info.

The time for fresh, seasonal, delicious food is now – Turnips’ Edible Almanac is the definitive guide to eating the very best produce throughout the year, written by Borough Market greengrocer Fred Foster. The bulk of the recipes have been penned by Turnips Restaurant chef patron Tomas Lidakevicius, who Foster describes as Lithuania’s answer to Eminem (presumably on account of them having a similar haircut, but who knows).Turnips’ Edible Almanac is a fruit-and-vegetable reference book for home cooks, chefs or the culinary-interested, with 52 chapters: one for every week of the year. By challenging yourself to try different ingredients each month, and seeking out the freshest and most sustainably produced options, you’ll revolutionise the way you cook, eat, and even think about food. As well as being a core fixture at Borough Market, where Turnips’ retail unit caters to the market’s 4. Fred encourages readers to embrace the anticipation, the excitement of counting down to the arrival of a long-awaited fruit or vegetable.

These lists are created from decades of Fred’s experience working with and selling world-class fresh fruit and vegetables to restaurants, chefs and home cooks. Fred Foster is the co-founder of Turnips, a fruit and vegetable wholesale and retail company with an emphasis on quality and seasonality in the heart of London.Foster’s accounts of supplying some of the UK’s most exacting chefs are also worth a read - there’s a particularly good one about what went into Nico Ladenis’ famed peach Melba.