Toll House Tried and True Recipes
Author: Ruth G Wakefeld
Authentic recipes from the famous Massachusetts restaurant: popovers, veal and ham loaf, Toll House baked beans, chocolate cake, crumb pudding, much more. Nearly 700 recipes, including famous Toll House cookie recipe, many impossible to find elsewhere.
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Smith & Hawken Gardeners' Community Cookbook
Author: Victoria Wis
A big, ripe cornucopia of a book by gardeners who cook and cooks who garden, Smith & HawkenThe Gardeners' Community Cookbook celebrates both the Smith & Hawken gardening community and Second Harvest, the largest charitable hunger relief organization in the United States. Over 300 contributors from all 50 states share the fruit and vegetables of their labors--the secrets of their tomatoes and their tomato sauce. There are herb growers. Patio gardeners. Farmers. And famous chef/gardeners and writers, such as Deborah Madison, Alice Waters, Barbara Kafka, Ken Hom, Paula Wolfert, Thomas Keller, and Barbara Damrosch, who forces Belgian endive in buckets under the kitchen sink during bitter Maine winters.
And what they offer are over 400 recipes that give a cross section of creative American garden cooking. Here are garden-to-table dishes: Spinach and Strawberry Salad; Mexican Bruschetta. Seasonal inspirations: Curried Zucchini Soup; Tortellini with Pumpkin Alfredo; Asparagus Mushroom Flan. Prime pickings: Chicken and Chives; New Mexico Chard Enchiladas. And harvest put-ups: Green Tomato Chutney; Sweet Red Bell Pepper Pickle.
Compiled and written by Victoria Wise, this is the cookbook to meet like-minded neighbors and friends you never knew you had, exchanging ideas and recipes just for the pleasure of it.
Kitchen Gardner - John Bray
This book, produced in collaboration wi Smith & Hawken, is full of snippets from contributors. Charlotte Fliehler of Strawberry Point, IA, tells how the community got its name and then offers her recipe for Strawberry Spoon Sauce. Tips abound, and Wise provides short takes on everything from composting to canning. The book is thoroughly indexed. With nearly 400 contributors to this book, if you don't recognized a neighbor, you'll certainly be able to find at least a few kitchen song scores you'll be happy to sing.
Publishers Weekly
As might be expected from a community cookbook of recipes gathered by gardeners, most of this fare is vegetable-heavy, if not vegetarian, with an emphasis on freshness. Some of the contributors are well-known: Alice's Moroccan Carrots are from Alice Waters. Most, however, are simply creative cooks who like to share. There are complex recipes such as Sweet Potato, Caramelized Onion, and Butternut Squash Lasagne and simple ones such as Crostini with Fava Bean Paste, which requires only five ingredients. An urban organic gardener from Philadelphia contributes Thai-Style Turkey Sausage Wrapped in Grape Leaves, while a California duo donate a recipe for Limoncello de Malibu, a New World version of Capri's classic liqueur. Wise (coauthor of The Well-Filled Tortilla Cookbook) has sprinkled gardening and cooking tips throughout. Rose Petal Chicken Breasts are accompanied by a note on growing flowers for consumption, for instance. The regional diversity is refreshing, although some ingredients may be inaccessible to most readers. The fresh figs in Hospitality Figs with Cinnamon, Anise, and Fresh Bay Leaves are probably easy to grow in Greece, where their contributor lives, but not so easy to find on the Atlantic coast. Still, there is a generosity here that pulls everything together and is expressed in the sharing of recipes and in good-natured headnotes that relate gardening experiences. (Oct.) FYI: A portion of the book's earnings will be donated to the hunger relief organization Second Harvest. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
Library Journal
This impressive book from garden purveyors Smith & Hawken includes more than 400 recipes contributed by gardeners and cooks all across the country. All, of course, highlight fresh ingredients from the garden (or farmers' market), whether in a first course like Alice's Moroccan Carrots (from Chez Panisse owner Alice Waters), a main dish such as Tomato Zucchini Tart, or a dessert like Upside-Down Peach Shortcake. Some, especially those in the preserving chapter, are family heirlooms; others are more recent creations. Cookbook author Wise provides the recipe headnotes, often with quick tips and advice from the individual contributors, and dozens of boxes and sidebars on a wide variety of subjects. Highly recommended. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.
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