Cook Book: Plot to Plate

This 140-page spiral bound book with unique wraparound cover, records and celebrates 100 years of a community creating, maintaining and improving a vibrant allotment site on the edge of the city of Edinburgh, near the coast in Portobello.Illustrative drawings created during community workshops held at the allotment site, developed working with artists Felicity Bristow and Susie Wilson, are interspersed throughout the publication, as well as recipes from allotment plotholders, interviews, and quotations from historical minute books from 1923 when the site was first established.This Plot to Plate Cook Book has evolved through a continuing friendship with the working group who volunteer at the allotments. The value of this natural and productive community space is immense to the plot holders, not only for producing food but for providing a peaceful and natural space for reflection, play, learning and enjoying nature amongst a generous and diverse community. The book is for everyone, to share recipes that are about place, people and a community.