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Vegetables
by James Peterson
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
James Peterson's Vegetables
is an encyclopedic yet easy-to-read guide to preparing everything from
artichokes and beet greens to plantains and watercress. It contains more
than 300 enticing recipes, many which use just three or four ingredients.
This is a book about vegetables,
but not a vegetarian cook book. To deliver appealingly intense flavors,
Peterson uses chicken broth, anchovies, prosciutto, or bacon. He also does
not skimp on cream or butter when he feels it is right for a dish.
Peterson starts with information
on buying, storing, and using 64 vegetables. Photos illustrate how to trim
fennel, clean and julienne leeks and perform other commonly used techniques.
He also provides helpful information along with the recipes, like suggesting
that you buy roasted, not raw cashews because they are less likely to be
rancid. The recipes range from Mediterranean-style Creamy Zucchini Gratin
to Mexican Avocado and Chile "Gazpacho," and Japanese Cucumber Salad, as
well as expected classics like mashed potatoes, glazed carrots, and creamed
spinach. When you need a gift, think of this book. --Dana Jacobi
Book Description:
The follow-up to his James
Beard award-winning Fish & Shellfish, James Peterson's newest book,
Vegetables,
will be the most authoritative book on the topic. In addition to the more
than 300 wonderful recipes, Peterson includes an encyclopedic introduction
covering topics such as vegetable varieties, uses, buying, preparation,
storage, and more -- basically everything you'll ever need to know.
McGee
& Stuckey's Bountiful Container : Create Container Gardens of Vegetables,
Herbs, Fruits, and Edible Flowers
by Rose Marie Nichols McGee,
Maggie Stuckey
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
McGee (Basic Herb
Cookery) and veteran gardening writer Stuckey (Gardening from the Ground
Up) share their expertise and experience in the art of container gardening.
Armed with this manual, frustrated apartment dwellers can indulge their
passion for growing edible things. If there is an available balcony, porch,
front or back steps, according to the authors, growing produce in containers
can be easy and rewarding. With some limitations, it is even possible to
grow foods in a window box or on an indoor windowsill. This compendium
of practical advice includes detailed information on the types of containers
to use, equipment needed, the right soil, when to plant which seeds and
how best to deal with problems such as too much or too little sunlight.
They also explain more sophisticated techniques like succession planting,
whereby ongoing seasonal planting takes place in the same container. This
can yield a harvest of peas in early summer, tomatoes in late summer to
early fall and kale that will grow into winter. Included are mouth-watering
recipes for harvested container crops. Written for the beginner as well
as for those with a background in gardening, McGee and Stuckey's directions
are comprehensive, clearly written and frequently inspiring. Illus.
Book Description:
With few exceptions-such
as corn and pumpkins-everything edible that's grown in a traditional garden
can be raised in a container. And with only one exception-watering-container
gardening is a whole lot easier. Beginning with the down-to-earth basics
of soil, sun and water, fertilizer, seeds and propagation, The
Bountiful Container is an extraordinarily complete, plant-by-plant
guide.
Written by two seasoned container
gardeners and writers, The
Bountiful Container covers Vegetables-not just tomatoes (17 varieties)
and peppers (19 varieties), butharicots verts, fava beans, Thumbelina carrots,
Chioggia beets, and sugarsnap peas. Herbs, from basil to thyme, and including
bay leaves, fennel, and saffron crocus. Edible Flowers, such as begonias,
calendula, pansies, violets, and roses. And perhaps most surprising, Fruits,
including apples, peaches, Meyer lemons, blueberries, currants, and figs-yes,
even in the colder parts of the country. (Another benefit of container
gardening: You can bring the less hardy perennials in over the winter.)
There are theme gardens (an Italian cook's garden, a Four Seasons garden),
lists of sources, and dozens of sidebars on everything from how to be a
human honeybee to seeds that are All America Selections.
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