A country cookbook. Contains suggestions for breakfast in a country kitchen, harvest lunches, picnics and camp ovens, and a chapter on relishes and jams. Throughout the book are extracts from poems and reflections on country life. Two-colour design, including photos. Contains some photos, bibliography, list of weights and measures, and index. Principal author Bragg is a farmer's wife on a property near Cootamundra and was inspired by Reading, who owned a catering company and whose recipes are included.