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The Sustainable Kitchen: Passionate Cooking Inspired by Farms, Forests and Oceans |
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The Sustainable Kitchen: Passionate Cooking Inspired by Farms, Forests and Oceans |
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Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5 EAN: 9780865715059 ISBN: 086571505X Label: New Society Publishers Languages: Manufacturer: New Society Publishers Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: May 01, 2004 Publisher: New Society Publishers Studio: New Society Publishers Editorial Review: Product Description: The Sustainable Kitchen brings home the thrill of tasting fine cuisine made from the best seasonal ingredients grown locally. Designed for people who want to make food choices that promote the economic, environmental and social health of their communities, this book gives seasonal cuisine new flair, using recipes adapted for exciting home cooking. Its two talented chefs share their passion for the culinary arts and their regional focus that inspires home cooks everywhere to connect with local farmers and purveyors to obtain the freshest produce available. These connections encourage regional food supplies and a strong local economy, maintain community, foster earth stewardship, and protect the future of family farms. The Sustainable Kitchen focuses strongly on ingredients, offering a chef's insights into how and why to combine several together into a sauce, soup or ragoût for optimum flavor. The sumptuous recipes are offered as guidelines-the basis for inspiration, but not as absolutes-to allow for local market variations and a dash of spontaneity. Recipes include the full range, with special sections featuring entrees: from oceans and rivers-seafood from forests and farms-game, meat and poultry from fields and gardens-vegetarian Additional sections cover the basic tastes, tips for pairing food and wine, preserving the harvest, and "Notes to the Cook"-collecting useful recipes for basic vinaigrette, vegetable stock, crème fraîche, pasta dough, and much more. Stu Stein and Mary Hinds are executive chefs at The Peerless Restaurant in Ashland, Oregon, which they own together. Both award-winning chefs with national experience, Stu has also appeared as featured chef on the nationally syndicated cooking series New American Cuisine and has contributed to several cookbooks. Judith Dern has won awards for her food writing. John Rizzo's prized photographs have appeared in many cookbooks and periodicals. Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Just plain love it!This is one of my favorite cookbooks! It's easily laid out, I'm able to find recipes by season, and by type... I don't think I could live without it.... Some favorite's include: The ricotta gnocchi, the crab salad, white balsamic vinaigrette, chilled pea soup.... the list goes on! Rating:  - Too pretentious for meI'm entirely for eating local and in-season, growing our own food, organic, etc, and we live in the same area of the restaurant, so I had high hopes. But while the recipes actually don't have too many ingredients (hard to find, yes, like duck fat or fennel bulbs, but not many of them) and seem reasonably straightforward and accessible, they aren't what I personally would cook for local and sustainable meals... these are definitely going for the gourmet high-end foodie who likes a bit of fussy in their food but wants to be greener. It's sustainable and local cooking in the hybrid-car way, rather than the bicycle way... Rating: - The why of what you eatThe intent of most vegetable gardeners extends beyond the carefully nurtured ecosystem to the plate. An early entry into the gardening cookbook category, The Victory Garden Cookbook by Marian Morash (Knopf, 1982), has long been a favorite of mine, with its delicious recipes side-by-side with planting and cultivating suggestions and the sometimes too-precious stories about the famous made-for-PBS garden. But that book stops short of integration into the wider food equation, the systems that feed us. Enter The Sustainable Kitchen. A cookbook, this collection of scrumptious recipes is interspersed with theory. Though this isn't a large volume it is amazingly comprehensive, carrying you through from appetizers to nuts with seasonal dessert recipes that range from the crunch of Sun-Dried Cherry Biscotti to the liquid -- Chilled Syrah Poached Rhubarb Soup. Recipe ingredients include fish, shellfish, poultry, beef, pork, game, eggs, cheeses, and wild mushrooms, as well as fruits and vegetables, and a section on wine selection offers a splendid short course on a complex subject. Whether you are a vegetarian (with the enormous ecologic benefits that inhere) or an omnivore, the authors want you to consider the source and the season when you choose your diets. Local and fresh are best -- not only because local is fresher, but because dollars stay in the local economy. They explain why most fish farming is a source of environmental degradation, how to tell the difference, and which methods of catching fish are most sustainable (as well as which fish are now managed most sustainably). Distinctions in meat production are made clear as well, with specific guidelines about humane treatment, organic feedstock (and no animal byproducts or waste), no use of hormones or sub-therapeutic antibiotics and growing the animals on land that is treated as a sustainable resource. Rating: - Enhanced with 75 color and b/w photosStu Stein and Mary Hinds are acclaimed chefs and co-owners of The Peerless Restaurant in southern Oregon. Together with Judith H. Dern, they have collaborated in The Sustainable Kitchen: Passionate Cooking Inspired By Farms, Forests And Oceans, a compilation of fresh, seasonal, flavorful, original, and thoroughly "kitchen cook friendly" recipes. Enhanced with 75 color and b/w photos, these delicious recipes range from Asparagus Custard; Three Oyster Stew; Heirloom Tomato Salad with Grilled Red Torpedo Onions and Pesto Vinaigrette; and Slow Roasted Ivory King Salmon with a Ragout of Mushrooms, Spinach and Fingerling Potatoes; to Sage Rubbed Leg of Pork with Apple-Fennel Pan Sauce; Root Vegetable and Onion Marmalade Pave; Chocolate Peppermint Brownie; and Honey Tangerine-Meringue Tartlet with Grand Marnier Pastry Cream and Berry Coulis. The Sustainable Kitchen will prove to be a welcome and appreciated addition to any kitchen cookbook collection!
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