Home Farm Cooking

About Home Farm Cooking

Home Farm Cooking is the long-awaited second cookbook from celebrated architectural designer John Pawson and his wife Catherine.

Home Farm is the Pawson family’s base in the heart of the English countryside. Five years in the making, the beautiful house was built to unite friends and relatives in a bucolic, simple setting. In this personal, inspiring recipe collection John and Catherine share 100 favorite dishes, all fundamental to their home-cooking – and entertaining – repertoire. The result speaks beautifully of food shared and enjoyed in a space designed to accommodate and adapt to the seasonal shift in cooking and eating. Recipes included range from Easter lamb served in the open-plan barn kitchen to wild mushroom risotto shared in the intimate dining room and walnut praline ice cream enjoyed outside by the carp pond. Stunning photographs of the house and finished dishes bring the book – and Pawson’s celebrated aesthetic – to life, making this the perfect gift for both home cooks and architecture lovers.

About Catherine & John Pawson

Catherine Pawson studied at the Inchbald School of Design in London and worked at Colefax & Fowler, before embarking on a long-term partnership with fellow interiors specialist Juliet Byrne.

Yorkshire-born John Pawson CBE is renowned for work that focuses on ways of approaching fundamental problems of space, proportion, light, and materials. His many residential and commercial interiors have included private homes, art galleries, museums, chapels, and stores around the world.

Blurbs About Home Farm Cooking

“A new cookbook by the fabled British architect and his wife serves up their kitchen secrets.” – Financial Times, How to Spend It

“Style, substance and sustenance dance across every page. Like John’s deceptively simple design of the spaces, Catherine’s recipes, from roast chicken and gooseberry fool to nettle risotto are all beautifully understated, tried-and-tested by the couple, and they work perfectly.” – Harper’s Bazaar UK

“Simple, unpretentious and seasonal dishes.” – Sotheby’s magazine

“A lyrical new cookbook.” – Apollo

“Home Farm Cooking” celebrates everything that these metropolitan Londoners have learned about country living. Original recipes sensibly – and lyrically, too – celebrate the seasons … All the values of country living can be seen in Home Farm Cooking: the use of honest materials, the ordered way of life linked to the changing season, the good feeling that comes off places where people are generously fed and cherished.” – House & Garden

“Home Farm Cooking will delight even the pickiest of eaters.” – Elle Decor

“Pawson has gone pastoral in Home Farm Cooking, a record of the seasons observed from his Oxfordshire home… sumptuous… the ultimate source of inspiration for any outdoor eating you’re planning in the months ahead.” – The Modern House

“Culinary magic.” – Vanity Fair

“The book is both a collection of recipes and a blueprint for a life well lived, one often spent in the kitchen, surrounded by family, fine food, and immaculate design.” – Town & Country

“A delightful, must-have cookbook.” – Galerie

“It’s masterful, elegant, tempting and at heart a love story.” – Alain de Botton