More than just a book of recipes, The Cooking Enthusiastis a complete course in cooking including techniques, background information, and helpful hintsto provide everything needed for the cooking enthusiast to feel confident in the kitchen."

Loving Dutch ovens is easy, especially after consuming a meal cooked in them. However, preparing a meal in them can be a disaster, especially for the beginner. Every Dutch oven cook has a sad story of black bread & charred chicken, including the author of the book LOVIN' DUTCH OVENS, who burned a first effort so completely that she ignored the dirty oven & Dutch oven cooking for six years. After ten years of trial & error & three years of writing & experimenting, Joan S. Larsen has come up with what many Dutch oven cooks are calling "the Bible of Dutch oven cooking" & with good reason. LOVIN' DUTCH OVENS covers all aspects of Dutch ovens from cooking, to size & selection, to handling & care. Recipes included are simple to complex & have step-by-step directions. Each chapter starts with hints of success for food types covered in that section. Add chapter indexes, a quick reference for favorite recipes & a way of including your family favorites. From SIMPLY DELICIOUS, a beginner's level, to WINNING WAYS, a guideline for competitive cooks, LOVIN' DUTCH OVENS sets a standard for enhancing the skill level of any Dutch oven enthusiast.

The Best Restaurants, Markets & Local Culinary Offerings The ultimate guides to the food scene in their respective states or regions, these books provide the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate local culinary offerings. Engagingly written by local authorities, they are a one-stop for residents and visitors alike to find producers and purveyors of tasty local specialties, as well as a rich array of other, indispensable food-related information including: • Favorite restaurants and landmark eateries • Farmers markets and farm stands • Specialty food shops, markets and products • Food festivals and culinary events • Places to pick your own produce • Recipes from top local chefs • The best cafes, taverns, wineries, and brewpubs

Paradigm-shifting, The Kitchen Ecosystem will change how we think about food and cooking. Designed to to create and use ingredients that maximize flavor, these 400 recipes are derived from 40 common ingredients--from asparagus to fish to zucchini--used at each stage of its "life cycle": fresh, preserved, and in a main dish. Seasoned cooks know that the secret to great meals is this: the more you cook, the less you actually have to do to produce a delicious meal. The trick is to approach cooking as a continuum, where each meal draws on elements from a previous one and provides the building blocks for another. That synchronicity is a kitchen ecosystem. For the farmers market regular as well as a bulk shopper, for everyday home cooks and aspirational ones, a kitchen ecosystem starts with cooking the freshest in-season ingredients available, preserving some to use in future recipes, and harnessing leftover components for other dishes. In The Kitchen Ecosystem, Eugenia Bone spins multiple dishes from single ingredients: homemade ricotta stars in a pasta dish while the leftover whey is used to braise pork loin; marinated peppers are tossed with shrimp one night and another evening chicken thighs and breast simmer in that leftover marinade. The bones left from a roast chicken bear just enough stock to make stracciatella for two. The small steps in creating “supporting ingredients” actually saves time when it comes to putting together dinner. Delicious food is not only a matter exceptional recipes—although there are an abundance of those here. Rather, it is a matter of approaching the kitchen as a system of connected foods. The Kitchen Ecosystem changes the paradigm of how we cook, and in doing so, it may change everything about the way we eat today.

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"A cookbook and poetry anthology with 150 nutritious international recipes and a wide survey of classic and contemporary poetry about food and ingredients, along with literary essays, playful culinary and historical notes, explanatory drawings, and photographs."--Provided by publisher.