About the Author

Paul Peacock has written extensively on food (The Sausage Book, The Cheese Making Book, The Smoking and Curing Book, How to Butcher Livestock and Game, The Pocket Guide to Wild Food) and biographies (Jack Hargreaves a Portrait, A Good Life). He is also editor of Home Farmer magazine in the United Kingdom. He lives in Manchester and is the embodiment o'self-sufficiency in a semi.'