20/09/2026
EXTREMELY EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THAT OUR QUEEN OF TURNIPS Beth Alexander Free Range Chef & Food Writer ’s COOKBOOK IS NOW LIVE FOR PRE-ORDER 👀🔥❤️
Beth’s beautiful book Retreat Kitchen has been a labour of love and a childhood dream of hers, and if I had a pound for every time someone on retreat asked her to write a cookbook I’d have many many pounds 💰
Beth and the amazing Matt Inwood also slowly and lovingly photographed all the food in the book over a year at Matt’s home, so she could create it all in tune with the seasons 🍂
We met on the very first Wild Times retreat in the woods C A M P W E L L W O O D S, and since then we have… laughed, danced, sang, cried, skinnydipped, swam, told ghost stories around campfires, washed up (A LOT), wandered around Rome, spent hundreds of euros on cheese in Italy because I might have fancied the cheese man, had just a couple of wines, celebrated many many birthdays with Colin the caterpillar cakes, celebrated New Year’s Eves, celebrated Beth’s wedding (literally I was the celebrant) and talked and talked and talked and talked.
It was on our retreat in Italy, retreating back to beautiful Lazio where Beth first started her retreat cheffing career years ago, that she got the call and found out she’d got a book deal. We all cried and celebrated with a Spritz, then jumping in the pool ✨
I always say she’s like a cross between the wholesome earthiness of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall with the naughtiness of Nigella, but no one is quite like Beth. Everyone on retreat falls in love with her (I think she puts spells in the food…)
Gorgeous Beth, congratulations. Retreat Kitchen is beautiful and I can feel your love and magic and talent in every recipe and every page. Plus photos from Matt Inwood, illustrations from Lucy Ellis, and extra words from Louise Press and me!
Please go and pre-order it now (pre-orders really really help ALL authors!) 🙏❤️
Official launch is February 2nd, there will be many lovely events celebrating Retreat Kitchen next year, plus our retreat with Beth at C A M P W E L L F A R M next July 👀 🌳