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Sustainable AgricultureSustainable is a popular word these days, and it can mean many different things. Sustainable agriculture, to us, means using the least amount of land, water and commercial fertilizer to grow the most amount of food. We have selected a few books that will help you gain a better understanding of sustainable agriculture and why it is important.
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Be sure to get your hands on Barbara Kingsolver's latest page-turner, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver, perhaps best known for her novels set in the desert southwest, takes a different turn with this memoir recounting her family's move to rural Virginia, where they endeavor to eat nothing but the food they or their neighbors can produce. Kingsolver writes eloquently of her love for food, the land, and the natural environment of her Appalachian home, and starkly contrasts her family's choice to eat local foods and become more self sufficient with the industrialized agriculture, processed-food model that makes up most Americans' diets. Part cookbook and instruction manual (learn to make your own cheese and then whip up a delicious pizza with it!), part autobiography, part ode to simple pleasures like family, neighbors, and making do with what you have, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is certain to lure you away from the drive-thru line and into the kitchen.
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In recent decades, organic food—the idealistic, natural alternative to industrial agribusiness and processed packaged foods—has grown into a multibillion-dollar business. Fromartz's portrait of the adolescent industry reveals that that success has prompted an epic identity crisis. Big corporations like Kraft and General Mills own the bulk of the market, and half of all organic sales come from the largest 2% of farms, alienating those most committed to producing chemical-free fruits and vegetables on small family farms, and selling them locally. Business journalist Fromartz uncovers the trailblazers' tactics: how Whole Foods Market developed a religion of "moral hedonism," how Earthbound Farm launched a revolution with bagged salad mix and how Silk soy milk became "the number one brand in the dairy case, among all milk and soy milk brands." But if big business is now the muscle of the organic industry, Fromartz demonstrates that small growers remain at its heart. Fromartz's profiles—of pioneers who sell their produce at farmers' markets and foster cooperatively-owned, local distribution networks—deftly navigate the complexities of pesticide issues, organic production methods and the legal controversies surrounding organic certification. This is a pragmatic, wise assessment of the compromises the organic movement has struck to gain access to the mainstream. Buy It Now
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Two decades ago, when nutritionist Gussow was giving fiery speeches about the importance of eating locally and seasonally, she realized that it was time to put her convictions into practice. In this combination memoir, polemic, and gardening manual, she discusses the joys and challenges of growing organic produce in her own New York garden. Initially, Gussow had planned to write about her misadventures in buying a 150-year-old house on a Hudson River floodplain. That story was incorporated into this book, but many of the boring remodeling details should have been omitted. Interesting points include a description of establishing her new garden, tips on making compost and on growing fruits and vegetables successfully in a northern climate, and various recipes using the garden bounty. Throughout, Gussow stresses the need to live responsibly "in a society where thoughtless consumption is the norm." Her constant reminders that industrial agriculture produces tasteless, environmentally destructive food well intentioned though they may be start sounding like a litany after a while. Yet, despite its flaws and self-righteous tone, this work offers encouragement to urban and suburban gardeners who want to grow at least some of their own produce. Buy It Now
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This book looks deeply into the American food system and closely examines the need for change in the way food is grown and distributed in the United States. It is composed of twelve interviews with dynamic women who work on issues surrounding modern agriculture. These women are producers, academicians, advocates and activists. Some work in agricultural law and policy. All are devoted to changing the current system. Buy It Now
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This is a compendium of the award winning columns Ward wrote for the Washington Post. He wrote about the joys and sorrows of producing organic food for body--and soul--at Flickerville Mountain Farm & Groundhog Ranch. "A little bit of all of us, and a lot of some of us, dream of doing something close to what Ward Sinclair and Cass Peterson did--pack it up, quit the big city, and fool around with the earth. These columns are fantastic..." Ben Bradlee, The Washington Post. If you are a farmer read this book and realize you are not alone, then give this to all your friends who think you are crazy. If you are a wannabe farmer and you read this and it makes your heart pound with anticipation you are bound to be a great success. Buy It Now
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How and why has agriculture, an endeavor that for millennia involved intimate knowledge of and profound respect for nature and place, become so industrialized that it's wreaking havoc all around the world? And what can people do about it? Editor Kimbrell, author of The Human Body Shop (1993), has assembled an eloquent group of contributors to answer these urgent questions in a book distinctive for its wealth of clarifying information and illuminating interpretations as well as for its generous design and striking use of photographs. Seminal thinkers such as Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, and Ron Kroese make the distinction between agrarian and industrial agriculture, assess the treacherous divide between them, and chronicle the catastrophic unintended consequences of monoculture farming, genetically engineered seeds, and the massive use of toxic pesticides and fertilizers. Kimbrell and company not only testify to the myriad ill effects of agriculture based solely on profit rather than the well-being of people and the planet, they also discuss alternative farming practices and the prospect for a new agrarianism and a brighter future. Buy It Now
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Cox, a veteran organic gardener, provides an encyclopedic guide to organic ingredients from fruits and vegetables to meats and dairy products, plus "kitchen staples" like coffee, bouillon and flour. Unlike most reference books, his is filled with personal touches: sidebars like "My Favorite Cherries" and "Keep an Eye Out for Black Walnuts" tell about Cox's encounters with foods, and even within the technical portions of the entries—which give information on nutrition, seasonality, storage, preparation and so on, as well as brief, fascinating histories of a food's cultivation—Cox often takes a personal approach. There are recipes using nearly every ingredient, most prepared simply to highlight a particular flavor, as in potent Rosemary Pesto, but others incorporate a food into heartier fare, like Caraway-Infused Pork. Though Cox's frequent pauses to extol organic food's virtues are of the preaching-to-the-choir variety, his abundant, knowledgeable advice on how to find and use the best products, and his presentation of special varieties of the ingredients make this a helpful resource for shoppers who are both bewildered and excited by the offerings in an ever-expanding field. Buy It Now
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Eat Here: Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket
Some people may ask, "what’s wrong with
getting my food from some distant land, if the food is cheap and the
system works?" The point Halweil, a senior researcher at the Worldwatch
Institute, makes throughout this book is that those prices are
artificially low, and the system is actually broken. Halweil’s writing
is journalistic in its reliance on interviews with farmers and
activists, but the book’s abundant statistics, graphs and suggestions
for action lend it the tone of a policy paper—one that is, nonetheless,
impassioned and accessible. Halweil gives readers reasons for pessimism
(the thousands of gallons of fossil fuel used to ship fresh greens
around the world; unprecedented risks of contaminated food) and optimism
(the spread of "farm shops" across Europe; the Vermont diner that’s
thriving by using almost entirely local food); fortunately, his optimism
usually prevails. Following each chapter is a short success story, such
as that of David Cole, who jumpstarted Hawaii’s cattle-raising and
crop-raising business. Halweil makes a strong argument that a system
dominated by "globe-trotting food" sold in impersonal megastores is bad
for the health of economies and people alike, while "eating local" and
encouraging regional self-sufficiency is good for both the environment
and the human race. Besides highlighting projects already underway,
which will inspire and encourage farmers and activists everywhere,
Halweil offers ideas for the individual consumer (such as hosting a
"harvest party" at your home or in your community). Even when describing
the decline of local agriculture, his tone remains upbeat. An essential
read for those interested in the sustainable agriculture movement, this
book may also appeal to general foodies and those who are concerned
about the land and the environment.
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Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally
Over a meal of fish, potatoes, and wild
mushrooms foraged outside their cabin in British Columbia, the authors
of this charmingly eccentric memoir decide to embark on a year of eating
food grown within 100 miles of their Vancouver apartment. Thus begins an
exploration of the foodways of the Pacific northwest, along which the
authors, both professional writers, learn to can their own vegetables,
grow their own herbs, search out local wheat silos and brew jars of
blueberry jam. They also lose weight, bicker and down hefty quantities
of white wine from local vineyards. Their engaging narrative is
sprinkled with thought-provoking reportage, such as a UK study that
shows the time people spend shopping the supermarket-driving, parking
and wandering the aisles-is "nearly equal to that spent preparing food
from scratch twenty years ago." Though their tone can wax preachy, the
wisdom of their advice is obvious, and the deliciousness of their bounty
is tantalizing-if local eating means a sandwich full of peppers, fried
mushrooms, and "delectably oozing goat cheese," their efforts appear
justified.
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Links to Organic and Sustainable Agriculture ResourcesThe Meatrix-The award-winning flash animation movie about the meat you eat. The Meatrix 2-Moopheus, Leo and Chickity are back in The Meatrix II: Revolting, the sequel to the Webby-award winning Meatrix. This time, they battle corporate agents as they try to save small family-farms. Store Wars- The Store Wars movie is the latest outreach effort of Organic Trade Association (OTA) to educate consumers about the many benefits of organic products. By spoofing a pop culture phenomenon like Star Wars, OTA hopes to attract a new generation of organic consumers, especially “Gen Xers” who grew up loving Luke, Leia and Han, and are now increasingly concerned about making healthy food choices for their families. The Beyond Organic radio show is an unique environmental radio and multimedia program, addressing issues of organic food and farming, social and environmental sustainability. The show offers news, interviews and research that fills a void left by public and private broadcasters. Sustainable News Center- The Sustainable News Center offers journalists a one-stop shop of credible, independent information on a wide range of issues related to the organic industry, sustainable agriculture, fair trade, food safety, social justice, and the environment. Organic Consumers Association- The Organic Consumers Association is an online and grassroots non-profit public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability.
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Slow Food by Carlo Petrini |
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Slow Food by the Slow Food Movement |
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The Pleasures of Slow Food by Corby Kummer |
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Slow Food Revolution: A New Culture for Dining and Living by Carlo Petrini, Gigi Padovani |
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The Slow Down Diet by Marc David |
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Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser |
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Slow Food Resources
Slow Food- Founded in 1986, is an international organization whose aim is to protect the pleasures of the table from the homogenization of modern fast food and life. Through a variety of initiatives, it promotes gastronomic culture, develops taste education, conserves agricultural biodiversity and protects traditional foods at risk of extinction. You can also visit Slow Food USA, and join Slow Food Denver. The mission of the
Slow Food
Foundation for Biodiversity is to organize and fund projects that defend our
world’s heritage of agricultural biodiversity and gastronomic traditions. They
envision a new agricultural system that respects local cultural identities, the
earth’s resources, sustainable animal husbandry, and the health of individual
consumers. The Edible Schoolyard
provides urban public school students with a one-acre organic garden and a
kitchen classroom. Using food systems as a unifying concept, students learn how
to grow, harvest, and prepare nutritious seasonal produce. Experiences in the
kitchen and garden foster a better understanding of how the natural world
sustains us, and promote the environmental and social well being of our school-community. |
Colorado Organic and Local Food LinksTop Ten reasons to Think Local - Buy Local - Be Local... Colorado Farm Fresh Directory is your complete guide to farmers' markets and roadside stands in the state. It is our pleasure to help you locate fresh, locally-grown fruits and vegetables, along with other farm products. Isle Farms Located in Ellicot, offers cow shares in raw milk cows, and hormone and antibiotic free Beef (both grain and grass fed) and Pork. Areas served are Colorado Springs, Castle Rock, Parker and Woodland Park. Desert Weyr is a small family farm that produces animal products in a humane and environmentally friendly way. They are located in Paonia, Colorado. Ela Family Farms Located on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains outside of Hotchkiss, Colorado, our ninety-nine acre organic fruit farm is dedicated to growing the best-tasting peaches, apples, pears and cherries around. High Wire Ranch is located 53 miles southeast of Grand Junction and 9 miles northwest of Hotchkiss, Colorado, on Redlands Mesa. We have been raising Bison since 1981 and Elk since 1987. Visitors welcome from 1 pm to 5 pm daily. Ranch Foods Direct is a retail store and meat packing facility created by rancher Mike Callicrate to bring healthful, high quality, naturally tender meats directly to consumers straight from the ranch. The goal of this one-of-a-kind program is to create a business that benefits both ranchers and consumers. RFD’s cattle raising, processing, and distribution system assures incomparable quality, wholesomeness, eating satisfaction, and a mutually rewarding relationship of trust and responsibility between the rancher and you the customer. When you buy from Ranch Foods Direct, you are supporting rural communities and farm and ranch families who care for the land and animals by utilizing environmentally sound, humane, and sustainable production practices. Salazar Natural Beef in Manassa, Colorado provides the health conscious consumer an alternative to the feedlot fattened beef that is found in most grocery stores. Our cattle are raised holistically in environmentally friendly conditions. Place an order.
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| At Lettuce Patch Gardens, we not only like to grow great
food, we like to eat great food! We are constantly testing different varieties
of our produce to bring you the best tasting vegetables. The best way to
test new foods is to rely on trusted sources for great recipes.
We have compiled a list of our favorite cookbooks. The following cookbooks either celebrate seasonal cooking and have wonderful recipes for using fresh produce. |
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Cook's Illustrated
(Magazine Subscription)
Cook's Illustrated provides
readers with recipes, cooking techniques, and product and food
recommendations exhaustively developed in our extensive Test Kitchen
facility - the same kitchen featured on their PBS cooking show,
America's Test Kitchen. Included are best ways to prepare favorite
American dishes -- from pot roast and chocolate chip cookies to grilled
salmon and fruit cobbler. Best (and worst) cooking equipment -- from
chef's knives to cookie sheets. Best brands -- from canned tomatoes to
baking chocolate. Best cooking techniques - from brining shrimp to
baking ham. And all of this is provided without a single page of
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The Complete Book of Pasta and Noodles
by the Editor's of
Cook's
Illustrated Magazine The Cook's Illustrated Complete Book of Pasta and Noodles offers a comprehensive introduction to the world's pasta, from spaghetti, couscous, and spaetzle to ramen, udon, rice sticks, and more. Compiled from the pages of Cook's Illustrated, the magazine of culinary investigation, the book is a trove of illustrated step-by-step instructions (on rolling pasta dough, for example), hundreds of pasta and related recipes, tips on buying and storage, and other useful data. In chapters such as "Dried Semolina Pasta and Chinese Wheat Noodles," the book explores a particular pasta type and then provides useful supplementary information. Included, for example, are pasta-tasting results, a "gallery" of pasta shapes, and material on matching pasta shapes to sauces. Offered also are comprehensive saucing chapters that cover such pasta accompaniments as olive oil, butter, cheese, bread crumbs, canned and fresh tomatoes, and seafood, among many others. The recipes themselves are exhaustive and, as one might expect, models of accuracy and good taste. Included are the likes of Macaroni with Spinach and Gorgonzola, Lasagna with Shrimps and Scallops, Potato Gnocchi with Butter, Sage, and Parmesan Cheese, and Cellophane Noodle Salad with Charred Beef and Snow Peas. With master recipes for many of the basic pasta types and more than 300 illustrations, the book should enlighten pasta lovers while whetting their appetite for its many satisfactions. Buy It Now |
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The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market Cookbook by Peggy Knickerbocker Internationally known as one of the most magnificent farmers' markets in the world, the San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market has inspired this gorgeous illustrated market companion. The perfect guide and cookbook -- no matter where you live -- each page celebrates the abundant seasonal produce grown by local organic and specialty-crop farmers along with more than 100 fresh, remarkably easy-to-assemble recipes. Organized by season, the book details the availability of products at the market and offers advice on choosing, storing, preparing, and freezing items. A foreword by Alice Waters, the history of the market, and vivid color photos throughout bring this farm fresh market guide to life. Buy It Now |
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Learning to Cook with Marion Cunningham
by Marion Cunningham In Learning to Cook, 150 recipes and 100 color photos are woven through 11 chapters with tempting titles like "Soup for Supper," "Easy Fish," "Meals Without Meat," and "Thank Goodness for Chicken." Cunningham's recipes are clearly written--free from hard-to-decipher cooking terms and elaborate preparations. Directions for preparing items such as vegetables are included in the recipes, so readers can prepare them as they cook, without perpetually referring to the ingredients list. Many of the recipes are meal-in-one suppers. Buy It Now |
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Seasonal Southwest Cooking
by Barbara Pool Fenzl
Celebrity Chef and author Barbara Pool Fenzl reveals secrets and
insights gained from her impressive culinary career and 36 years of
Southwest living. In this beautiful compilation, she presents more than
150 original recipes that burst with the colors, textures, and flavors
of the region—truly a masterpiece that pays homage to her Southwest
Home. As a bonus, Fenzl offers complete seasonal menus to give
entertainers ideas for serving sensational meals to groups of two to
twenty. Share these elegantly simple meals with friends and family and
enjoy all of the Southwest’s seasons.
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Recipes From An Ecological Kitchen
by Lorna J. Sass The
author's "ecological kitchen" serves low-fat, high-fiber vegetarian
food, made without dairy products or eggs, with an emphasis on organic
seasonal produce, fuel-efficient cooking, and minimal waste. Her
approach to such a diet is more accessible than most, and her recipes
are more appealing than the standard collections of vegan dishes. A
useful glossary of ingredients is appended. This should appeal to fans
of the Moosewood cookbooks as well as to the growing numbers of newer
converts to a plant-based diet.
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The Sustainable Kitchen
by Stu Stein Stein and Hinds's Peerless Restaurant in Oregon's Rogue Valley is becoming one of the compulsory stops for foodies making West Coast pilgrimages to places like Chez Panisse and French Laundry. Now the restaurant's executive chefs present the philosophy and recipes that inform their cooking from seasonal Northwest ingredients. Eating is political for the authors, and they make a strong case for home cooks as well as restaurant chefs to support local farmers and purveyors to "encourage a regional food supply and a strong local economy, maintain a sense of community, encourage earth stewardship, and protect the future of small to medium-size family farms." Sprinkled between elegant recipes for Sweet Corn and Shiitake Mushroom Custard and Pan-Seared Alaskan Sablefish with Green Garlic, Fiddlehead Ferns and Soft Polenta are profiles of farmers and fishermen, as well as concise, non-preachy explanations of the environmental consequences of different production methods, in order to help readers make responsible and sustainable choices. The emphasis is firmly on Pacific Northwest products, especially fish and seafood, but each recipe offers substitutions to encourage cooks to use sources from close to home. The first step to a good meal is quality ingredients, and for Stein and Hinds that starts with knowing where your food comes from. Buy It Now |
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Perfect Vegetables
by Editors of
Cook's Illustrated Magazine
For vegetarians and food enthusiasts weary
of soggy carrots, smelly cabbage or lumpy mashed potatoes, the editors
of
Cook's Illustrated
present a tome devoted to vegetable perfection from artichokes to
zucchini. Carefully researched and thoroughly tested, each section
(organized alphabetically by vegetable) includes an informative history
and interesting food facts; tips on how to select the freshest vegetable
at the market; and detailed approaches to cooking and serving. The
volume answers oft-asked questions about preparing and storing foods,
and includes both basic recipes ("master recipes") and tastier dishes
(Green Beans with Sautéed Shallots and Vermouth, Mashed Potatoes with
Brie and Tarragon and Glazed Carrots with Currants and Almonds) for each
veggie. Step-by-step illustrations on preparation help the home cook
master technique: detailed lessons, for example, are provided for
preparing artichokes for braising and corn for grilling, dicing an
avocado and segmenting an orange. There's a section on why chopping
onions can make you cry, as well as suggestions to stop the flow of
tears. (Light a candle or wear swimming goggles.) "Best of" segments are
peppered throughout the book, offering the reader results of taste and
equipment tests from the Cook's Illustrated staff.
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The Best Recipe: Grilling and Barbecue
by Editors of
Cook's Illustrated Magazine
Grilling and barbecuing have become a distinctly American
passion as more and more grills and smokers appear in our backyards. Too
often however, that juicy ribeye or succulent tenderloin roast becomes
something more fit to use as footgear than to appear on the dinner
table. Once again, the authors at
Cook's Illustrated have scored a huge
success with their latest book on the subject of grilling and
barbecuing. You will learn what to look for in equipment, the basic
principles of both grilling and barbecuing and a thorough examination of
preparing burgers, steaks, poultry, kebabs, fish and shellfish, veggies,
pork and of course, ribs. Rubs, sauces and salsa recipes are also
provided. But the main reason to purchase this book is for the
techniques and recipes. Each and every technique and recipe is the
culmination of exhaustive testing by the authors. You will be hailed as
a grilling guru or pitmaster every time your family or guests experience
the pleasure of tasting your fare. You will use this book often and one
word of caution: Don't let anyone borrow it or it will be the last time
you see it!
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The Roasted Vegetable
by Andrea Chesman "This is a cookbook for vegetable lovers--and vegetable haters," says Andrea Chesman in The Roasted Vegetable. Her argument is that roasting veggies brings out their "hidden sweet, nutty flavors," making them irresistible to carrot-hating kids and vegan adults alike. She supports this theory with 150 tantalizing recipes, starting with a sizeable serving of side dishes, then broadening to include salsas, soups, salads, sandwiches, pasta, pizza, tofu, granola, and more. Beyond obvious inclusions like roasted peppers, French fries, and chestnuts, there's Garlic Puree ("like a basic black dress, it goes with almost anything") and Roasted Kohlrabi, which "looks like a spaceship that has sprouted leaves." Another standout is the Roasted Tomato Sauce, for which tomatoes are roasted up to one and a half hours until they've broken down to form a thick sauce; the recipe also has variations for pasta, enchiladas, and Middle Eastern dishes. In addition, the book covers basic techniques and equipment and has a handy roasting chart--all aimed to help your roasted vegetables come out perfectly "tender-crisp." Buy It Now |
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Greens Glorious Greens!
by Johnna Albi We know that there is life beyond broccoli and iceberg lettuce, but what is one to do with the odd-looking green things with exotic names that increasingly line the produce shelves? Albi (who recently died) and Walthers (formerly food editor for Natural Health) take a careful look at greens from arugula and dandelion to kale and mesclun and other salad greens. The authors explain their subjects' virtues and shortcomings (steamed broccoli rabe served solo can be unpleasant); how to choose them; how and how long to keep them; how to clean them; and, in more than 140 recipes, how to cook them. Greens need a little help, they say, and many of the recipes lean on a smattering of olive oil, garlic or raisins to bring out the flavor: Kale with Raisins and Toasted Pine Nuts; Chinese Bok Choy, Shitake and Tofu; Garlic Escarole Soup with Rice. Carrots or red peppers can add color as well as flavor Broccoli Rabe Vegetable Pasta with yellow summer squash and freshly grated Parmesan or Romano is an exceptionally pretty and tasty dish. Interspersed are informational chapters on nutrition (most greens are high in vitamins, minerals and beta-carotene), the best cooking methods, and home gardening tips. Buy It Now |
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Chez Panisse Vegetables
by Alice L. Waters By now just about everybody whose interest in eating runs deeper than fast food knows about Alice Waters. The creator of Chez Panisse, the legendary restaurant in Berkeley, California, that helped create a modern American cuisine based on fresh ingredients, she is also equally well-known as a teacher and cookbook author. Chez Panisse Vegetables is one of the best new cookbooks of the season; it's as useful for its information about vegetables and how to use and handle them as it is for its irresistible recipes, which lead to complex and interesting dishes built from simple ingredients and simple techniques. But It Now |
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A Celebration of Herbs: Recipes from the Huntington Herb Garden by Shirley Kerins
A Celebration of Herbs is a cookbook that
pairs herbs with the right foods in the most tantalizing ways. Compiled
by long-time herb enthusiast Shirley Kerins from recipes submitted by
the staff of the world-famous Huntington Gardens, this high-quality book
enriches our souls as well as our palates by offering us interesting and
pertinent information on the herbs we are cooking with.
Especially helpful for beginning herb users is the chapter on "Learning
to Use Herbs in Cooking." In this chapter, Ms. Kerins has outlined her
"Eight-Step Program for Learning to Cook With Herbs" that is sure to
make cooking with herbs a snap!
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The Vegetarian Grill: 200 Recipes for Inspired Flame-Kissed Meals
by by Andrea Chesman Forget about the word vegetarian in the title,
and don't think inspired is just hype. The Vegetarian Grill features a
host of unexpected dishes that should interest almost everyone. Have you
ever thought, for example, of grilling quesadillas or falafel; of making
lasagna laced with grilled, chopped vegetables; or of using grilled
vegetables to infuse a meatless split-pea soup with deep flavor? Although she lives in Vermont, she grills even in the dead of winter,
and she offers lots of recipes for Fire-Up Flatbreads and Pizzas, Kabobs
and other compelling combinations, Grilled Desserts, and more. Chesman
has an engaging style, and she offers lots of handy tips with her
appealing recipes.
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Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini
by Elizabeth Schneider Elizabeth Schneider creates a compelling guide to 350 common and exotic vegetables. This seed-to-table exploration does more, however. In addition to its usefulness as a reference work (vegetables are, for example, listed by their market, botanical, and common names), the book offers 500 up-to-the-minute recipes--such as Shredded Yellow Squash with Garlic Chives and Baked Sweet Potato-Apple Puree with Horseradish--valuable advice on seasonality and selection, multiple-method cooking instructions, and color photos of all the entries that make market identification a breeze. Buy It Now |
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My Italian Garden: More than 125 Seasonal Recipes from a Garden Inspired by Italy
by Viana La Place All the recipes in this book reflect the themes of seasonality, simplicity, and freshness. This is garden-style cooking, and it makes being in the kitchen a joy rather than a chore. Time spent preparing dishes is minimal and the rewards are great. Even home cooks who are unable to keep the hardiest of plants alive or who live in tiny, dark apartments will be enchanted by La Place's description of her bountiful garden. La Place's insistence on relying on her garden's bounty alone to supply dishes for each course and every season spurs her to great creativity, as exemplified by the "Caprese" salad that morphs through the year from the summer classic to a winter version with radicchio, orange zest and hazelnuts. Though cooks without a garden will not have quite the experience that La Place describes, just the idea of concentrating on a few fresh ingredients will remind them of just how extraordinary vegetables can be. Buy It Now
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Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America's Farmers' Markets
by Deborah Madison The book offers chapters deftly
arranged by fruit and vegetable families as they appear in the markets,
such as "The Vegetable Fruits of Summer: Eggplants, Tomatoes, and
Peppers" and "A Cool Weather Miscellany," which includes recipes such as
Sautéed Artichokes with Potatoes and Garlic Chives and a marvelous
"essence-of" soup, Elixir of Fresh Peas. Madison also treats unfamiliar
fruits and vegetables, presenting the likes of lamb quarters in a soup
made with Sonoma Teleme cheese, and sugar loaf chicory simply grilled
and dressed with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Recipes for delightful
salads like Melon Salad with Thai Basil also appear, as do a selection
of pastas and risotto, such as Winter Squash Risotto with Seared
Radicchio, and sweets like White Peaches in Lemon Verbena Syrup and
Date, Dried Cherry, and Chocolate Nut Torte. With sidebars like
Atlanta's All-Organic Market: Late October and color photos throughout
of vendors, produce, and many of the dishes, the book offers the perfect
match of Madison and the markets.
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Gourmet
Magazine Gourmet editors review the best restaurants from around the world and provide expert travel advice for those in search of the ultimate epicurean experience. Each issue features refreshing, easy-to-prepare and delicious recipes that come complete with top recommended wines. You'll get low fat alternatives, Quick Kitchen recipes, 5 ingredient feasts, drink tips and great seasonal dishes. Buy It Now |
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From the Cook's Garden
by Ellen Ecker Odgen Spring's approach brings the promise of planting and another season of garden produce. Ellen Ecker Ogden has written From the Cook's Garden as a guide for those seeking some new ways to use up their garden bounty. Ogden's own immense Vermont garden provides the basis for these recipes, and they reflect thoughtful and tasty ways to produce appealing dishes from the freshest ingredients. Although most recipes offer ease of preparation, Ogden's cold creamy red beet soup with pistachio mousse calls for a base of cider, wine, and cinnamon and tops each bowlful with dollops of whipped ricotta, pistachios, and green herbs. Many of the book's recipes are vegetarian, but a few have fish or meat as prominent flavors. Because gardens often produce more than can be consumed during the harvest months, Ogden closes her book with a section on preserving, both in cans and in the freezer. Buy It Now |
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Simply In Season
by Mary Beth Lind and Cathleen Hockman-Wert
Not so long ago most fresh food on North American tables
came from home gardens and local farmers markets. Today, the average
item of food travels more than a thousand miles before it lands on our
tables. It’s a remarkable technological accomplishment, but has not
proven to be healthy for our communities, our land or us. Through
stories and simple "whole foods" recipes, Mary Beth Lind and Cathleen
Hockman-Wert explore how the food we put on our tables impacts our local
and global neighbors. They show the importance of eating local, seasonal
food—and fairly traded food—and invite readers to make choices that
offer security and health for our communities, for the land, for body
and spirit.
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On Top of Spaghetti-Macaroni, Linguine, Penne, and Pasta of Every Kind
by Johanne Killeen and George Germon The noodle reigns
supreme in this fun but singularly focused collection of recipes.
Drawing from decades of experience, the James Beard Award–winning owners
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Organic Cookbook
by Eric Treuille Natural, nutritious, and flavorsome food for all the seasons of the year. Reawaken your tastebuds with the flavors and textures of the natural and nutritious ingredients used in the Organic Cookbook's delicious, satisfying recipes. Delicious, nutrient-packed meals result from the use of natural ingredients at their absolute seasonal best. To guide you through seasonal shopping, Organic Cookbook's comprehensive, at-a-glance fruit and vegetable calendar shows you the best time of the year to buy food at its freshest and most nutritious. In addition to this advice on what to look for in fresh produce and how to buy what is best on the day, Renee Elliot and Eric Treuille offer invaluable advice on effective storing methods to seal in the natural goodness inherent in organic produce. With simple meals that require minimal effort and are easy to prepare, the recipes in this collection ensure that every ingredient counts -- the aim is always to enhance, not disguise. Each recipe combines fresh ingredients to bring out the essential aromas, flavors, and nutrients to produce fresh-tasting, delicious meals every time. Buy It Now |
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Conscious Cusine by Cary Neff "Conscious cuisine" is what Neff calls the food he cooks at Miraval Spa near Tucson, AZ, among the top spa resorts in the country. Here he presents dozens of recipes for the sophisticated but healthful food he serves-one of the major reasons for the spa's popularity. Those who love good foods can keep "Conscious Cuisine" on the shelf for a long-time to come. There is lots of variety, and most of the savoring dishes and sauce recipes are low in sodium, carbohydrates, and sugar. Worth noting, is that this is not for the quick throw-together at-home food enthusiasts. It's a step up into a little more planning and stocking. But the results will give you 5-star dishes such as Saffron-chive sauce, Carrot Mousse, Layered Spinach, Wild Mushroom, are a few of the many high-end cuisine you can create in your own kitchen. Buy It Now
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The Best International Recipe
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you the best and most exciting cooking from around the world. The more
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