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A well-written, all-purpose culinary guide to organically grown and raised food, this kitchen essential covers everything from reasons to eat organic to detailed information about vegetables, fruits, and recipes. Discussions of food quality, variety, and the joys of shopping at a farmers' market are followed by extensive information about each ingredient. Recipes include Spinach and Sweet Potato Flan, Salmon Fillets with Horseradish Crust, Chicken with Cumin and Citrus, Kiwi-Lime-Strawberry Sorbet, and Chocolate and Blackberry Bombe. With full-color photographs.
| Size | | Length: | 546 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 7.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 48.8 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Cox's...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."
Publishers Weekly (01/30/2006)
Cox (<i>Cellaring Wine</i>), 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. Color photos not seen by <i>PW</i>. <i>(Apr.)</i> (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, January 30, 2006)
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