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About the The Great Cornish Fish Book

Its full title is The Great Cornish Fish Book: A Feast of Recipes, Tales and Discoveries from Cornwall's Coastal Larder. It was written by Ruth Huxley and Rosie Willmot and published by Cornwall Food and Drink on 25 September 2015, the first day of that year's Great Cornish Food Festival, as a follow-up to the team's Great Cornish Food Book of 2013. The publisher says the whole book was devised, written, designed, illustrated, photographed, edited and printed in Cornwall: the pages were designed by Design Room Cornwall and printed by Four Way Print in Launceston, so it's Cornish from cover to cover.

As a seafood cookbook, it's built around fish caught off the Cornish coast, with more than 35 recipes to cook at home. Between the recipes there's plenty to read about how the fish are caught and the words fishermen use, so it's as good on a bookshelf as it is in the kitchen. If you've bought fish from a Cornish quay, you may recognise some of the more than 40 harbours and coves it visits.

Nathan Outlaw, the Cornish chef known for his seafood restaurants, is quoted by the publisher as being proud to be part of it, and when the book launched, Cornwall Today's first feature on it included a recipe from Chloe Marsland of Harbour Lights in Coverack. If you're after fish recipes with a real Cornish accent, this is the place to start.

It's a paperback, about 24 x 18.5cm, easy to keep in the kitchen. A Cornish fish recipe book like this makes a thoughtful present for anyone who loves Cornwall, cooks fish at home or has fond memories of holidays by a harbour.

When it was published, the publisher said £1 from each sale went to the Fishermen's Mission, which supports fishermen and their families, and the National Lobster Hatchery in Padstow, which works to conserve lobsters.