Below you'll find cookbooks that focus on regional, sustainable cooking. Each book has a blend of vegetable, meat and fish dishes, and all focus on using as many fresh, local ingredients as possible. Click on the title to read a review and to find some sample recipes for you to try. If you would like to see a listing of all our recipes, please visit our Recipe page.
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Featured Cookbooks |
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The
Niman Ranch Cookbook:
Provides
excellent recipes, carving and seasoning techniques,
as well as beautiful photographs and stories
from sustainable farms and ranches. (Bill Niman
and Janet Fletcher) |
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Featured Cookbooks |
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Farmer John’s Cookbook: The Real Dirt on Vegetables:
This book helps the seasoned (and not-so-seasoned) veggie buyer – from the CSA member to the farmer’s market shopper to the grocery store produce aisle maven -- figure out exactly what to do with all of those vegetables! |
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Cooking
Fresh from the Mid-Atlantic:
Tantalizing recipes, celebrated chefs, and conversations
on the essential nature of small-scale farming
and sustainable agriculture. (Edited by Fran
McManus and Wendy Rickard) |
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La Cucina Anna Maria: Good Life Recipes from San Juan Island:
The San Juan Islands, Washington, are the setting for Anna Maria de Freitas’s cookbook highlighting the importance of using local, seasonal ingredients. A master of entertaining (she owns two bed and breakfasts on the San Juans), Anna Maria shows us how to live the good life by making connections with local farmers and food producers for culinary inspiration. |
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The
Garden of Eating:
A comprehensive guide to natural
eating, derived from ancient, time-tested food
ways of pre-agricultural people. (Rachel Albert-Matesz
and Don Matesz) |
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The
Grass-fed Gourmet Cookbook:
A meat-lovers cookbook and an earth-lovers guide,
this book will provide inspiration both in and
out of the kitchen. (Shannon Hayes) |
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GRUB: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen: Great recipes and great ideas for making sustainability a fun and tasty part of your life. (Anna Lappe and Bryant Terry) |
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Recipes
from America's Small Farms:
A collection of recipes that mix traditional
ingredients with the fresh and unusual bounty
of CSAs to delicious effect. (Joanne Lamb Hayes
and Lori Stein) |
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Simply
in Season:
With simple recipes made from foods typically
offered by small local farmers during each season,
this compilation from over 450 cooks and tasters
from around the world brings you the basics
of seasonal eating, with recipes ranging from
Fresh Pea Soup to Nova Scotia Hodgepodge. (Cathleen
Hockman-Wert and Mary Beth Lind) |
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The
Sustainable Kitchen:
Passionate Cooking Inspired by Farms, Forests
and Oceans. (Stu Stein with Mary Hinds and Judith
H. Dern) |
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