Vegetable Literacy: Cooking and Gardening with Twelve Families from the Edible Plant Kingdom, with over 300 Deliciously Simple Recipes [A Cookbook] - Rilegato

Madison, Deborah

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ISBN 10: 1607741911 ISBN 13: 9781607741916

Casa editrice: Ten Speed Press, 2013

Riassunto

In her latest cookbook, Deborah Madison, America's leading authority on vegetarian cooking and author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, reveals the surprising relationships between vegetables, edible flowers, and herbs within the same botanical families, and how understanding these connections can help home cooks see everyday vegetables in new light.
 
For over three decades, Deborah Madison has been at the vanguard of the vegetarian cooking movement, authoring classic books on the subject and emboldening millions of readers to cook simple, elegant, plant-based food.

This groundbreaking new cookbook is Madison’s crowning achievement: a celebration of the diversity of the plant kingdom, and an exploration of the fascinating relationships between vegetables, edible flowers, herbs, and familiar wild plants within the same botanical families.

Destined to become the new standard reference for cooking vegetables, Vegetable Literacy shows cooks that, because of their shared characteristics, vegetables within the same family can be used interchangeably in cooking. It presents an entirely new way of looking at vegetables, drawing on Madison’s deep knowledge of cooking, gardening, and botany. For example, knowing that dill, chervil, cumin, parsley, coriander, anise, lovage, and caraway come from the umbellifer family makes it clear why they’re such good matches for carrots, also a member of that family. With more than 300 classic and exquisitely simple recipes, Madison brings this wealth of information together in dishes that highlight a world of complementary flavors. Griddled Artichokes with Tarragon Mayonnaise, Tomato Soup and Cilantro with Black Quinoa, Tuscan Kale Salad with Slivered Brussels Sprouts and Sesame Dressing, Kohlrabi Slaw with Frizzy Mustard Greens, and Fresh Peas with Sage on Baked Ricotta showcase combinations that are simultaneously familiar and revelatory.

Inspiring improvisation in the kitchen and curiosity in the garden, Vegetable Literacy—an unparalleled look at culinary vegetables and plants—will forever change the way we eat and cook.

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Recensione:

Deborah Madison is *the* original Vegetarian foodwriter, inspired and inspiring, and a pioneer in her very green field, showing us how to get extraordinary elegance, heartening earthiness and, always, flavour, flavour, flavour, out of the fruits of the earth. I have long loved her 'Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone' (recently updated as The New Vegetarian Cooking') and 'The Greens Cookbook'; I remember fondly, elegiacally, an enchanted dinner with my husband John at the late, lamented Greens Restaurant in San Francisco when I was young. So for me, this, her most recent book, is both a source of joy, and a must-have volume. Think of it as an enquiry, in the old lettered sense, into the botanical world: a grounded reflection on the life of plants (in the earth and in the kitchen) and a vibrant compendium of recipes which celebrate them. --http://www.nigella.com/cookbook-corner/view/vegetable-literacy-132)

L'autore:

DEBORAH MADISON is the author of eleven cookbooks and is well known for her simple, seasonal, vegetable-based cooking. She got her start in the San Francisco Bay Area at Chez Panisse before opening Greens, and has lived in New Mexico for the last twenty years. In addition to writing and teaching, she has served on the boards of Slow Food International Biodiversiy Committee, the Seed Savers Exchange, and the Southwest Grassfed Livestock Alliance, among others. She is actively involved in issues of biodiversity, gardening, and sustainable agriculture.

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• Editore: Ten Speed Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1607741911
• ISBN 13: 9781607741916
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 416