The definitive Matthew Evans book on food, celebrating resolute flavours, integrity, and the joy of home cooking with 200 simple, delicious, unpretentious produce-driven recipes. Erudite and enlightening, akin to having the farmer, butcher, and baker by your side.

In The Real Food Companion, writer, farmer and chef Matthew Evans urges us to prioritise locally grown produce, not only to support sustainable farming, but to appreciate the true taste and flavour of real food. In this updated edition, Matthew's anti-marketing values are only more resolute: what matters with food isn't quantity, but quality. What matters is how the land is left after we eat, and just how good each meal is that we take from her soil. Many of his 200 recipes celebrate overlooked ingredients or just plain old-fashioned fresh flavours that can be found across the nation at farmers' markets; simple, truly seasonal food that real people can find and eat. Food that makes good cooking easy.