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Fresh Choices : More than 100 Easy Recipes for Pure Food When You Can't Buy 100% Organic

David Joachim, Rochelle Davis

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Good Cooking Starts with Good Food

Do you want to enjoy the best food nature has to offer? It's easier than you might think with Fresh Choices: More Than 100 Easy Recipes for Pure Food When You Can't Buy 100% Organic, the indispensable cookbook that helps you bring the best food possible to the table--even when organic isn't an option. Packed with more than 100 inspiring and satisfying dishes, Fresh Choices confronts the issues consumers face when they want to know where their food comes from.

Whether you're planning a special occasion or preparing a quick weeknight dinner, you'll find all your meals are more refreshing with flavorful dishes like Jamaican Pork Chops with Pineapple Black Bean Salsa, Sautéed Chicken with Sage and Gingered Plums, or Thai Fettuccine Primavera. And you'll be delighted to see how the freshest fruits and vegetables are paired to produce truly exceptional results like Mesclun Salad with Pears and Apricot Balsamic Vinaigrette or Caramelized Nectarine and Blueberry Galette. Also included are lists for buying seasonal produce, a valuable resource section, and all the information you need to buy the purest and safest meats, poultry, seafood, and dairy products.

GARDENER COOK

HOWARD SOOLEY (PHOTOGRAPHER) CHRISTOPHER LLOYD

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Unhurried ramble through the kitchen, garden and orchard 4 out of 5 stars.
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Gather some insight into what the kitchen is really like at Dixter! Christopher Lloyd shares his secrets on when unusual fruit are ripe to pick from the tree, and how to cook some of those less common garden fruit and vegetables.

VEGETARIAN PARIS 2008, Addresses and information about vegetarian restaurants, juice bars, organic food shops, organic bakeries and artesian wells in Paris

Laure Goldbright

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Paris is a wonderful city for the eyes, but it may be a nightmare for your body if you don't know where to find "real food". In France, even the salt on 90% of the tables will look as beautiful as the Eiffel tower! But this salt routinely contains whitening agents and anti-agglomerants, and your body will pay the price for this artificial beauty. Fortunately there are some places in Paris where you can still be served fresh natural food with "real" salt and sometimes even with an "organically grown French smile". Vegetarian Paris 2008 provides a wealth of information for travelers to Paris who want to enjoy the City of Light without jeopardizing their health. We hope Vegetarian Paris 2008 will help many travelers maintain their healthy diets and have a better time in Paris. Bon voyage and bon appétit! Contents of Vegetarian Paris 2008: In the first chapter, "Restaurants", you will find addresses, telephone numbers, business hours and closest metro stations of Parisian restaurants. Also included are brief examples of meals proposed and price, the percentage of organically grown products used in the preparation of meals, the kind of restaurant (vegetarian, vegan, macrobiotic, vegetarian friendly) and website addresses, when available. You will also find pictures of the restaurants listed. The second chapter lists organic and non-organic juice bars and soup bars and quality vegetarian (or vegetarian friendly) snack bars. Included are the names, addresses, business hours, phone numbers, and closest metro stations, as well as examples of meals/juices/soups proposed with their prices and organic ingredients used. The third chapter lists organic food shops with their names, addresses, business hours and phone numbers. When available, the number of seats for eating-in and websites are given. In the fourth chapter you will find listed the artesian wells still open to the public. Here you can get pure spring water for free, and chat with French people. In the fifth and sixth chapters, you will find lists of the main organic bakeries in Paris and information about organic food open markets. At the end of the book is an English-French food dictionary to help you get what you really want.

Organic & Wholefoods: Naturally Delicious Cuisine (Culinaria Series)

Andre Domine

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An unbelievably perfect book on organic "culinaria" !! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Organic & Wholefoods is a book of beautiful photography and extensive and instructional text on all categories of food and ingredients, preparation and cultivation. I have never seen a book on these subjects done so satisfyingly well. It begins with definitions, history, and some basic nutrition to orient one and explain how "organic" really does come from and create health. Then, in inspirationally beautiful and intelligent fashion, the food categories are covered. Historical, cultural, horticultural and culinary information is presented. (also exciting recipes!) The animal and animal products sections are fabulously well done, too. There is a section on herbs, on oils & vinegars, on drinks...nothing is left out. The last few sections cover the kitchen, the organic garden and organic farming itself. This book is a feast and yet not intimidating or overwhelming. I'm "gushing", I know, but I have never found anything even close to this amazing. This book is inextinguishably thrilling.

Organic Cooking: Eating Well: "300 Simple Organic Gourmet Recipes for a Healthier Life"

A World School Publication

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Important new organic cookbook 5 out of 5 stars.
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A great addition to your cookbook shelf. Learn how to be a gourmet chef the easy way, while eating healthy. From simple drinks to spectacular breakfast and lunch dishes, to amazing dinners, side dishes, and desserts, you'll find it all here. Not only are there wonderful recipes, but also serving suggestions and valuable nutrition and health information. The organic source guide will help you locate the organic ingredients that are used in the recipes. For less than ten cents per recipe, it's a great value. Organic eating is the fastest growing segment of the food marketplace. Try these delicious recipes, and see why.

Editorial Review:

This book is a healthy lifestyle guide that contains complete, organic meal plans-from breakfast specials to super suppers, from fabulous lunches to vegetarian delights, from amazing drinks to delectable desserts. Organic ingredients, chosen for their health value, have been combined in creative ways to produce incredibly delicious, nutritionally well-balanced, gourmet meals, yet which are very simple to prepare. Serving suggestions are included, as well as valuable nutritional and health information, and an organic source guide.

Your Organic Kitchen: The Essential to Selecting and Cooking Organic Foods

Jesse Ziff Cool

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Fresh Easy and Delicious 5 out of 5 stars.
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Because we raised free range hens for the eggs and have a large vegetable garden and savor the fresh fruit we have available I wanted the book in my home library. It is shy 300 pages and what I like about the book is the well laid out format. Like Why Organic? And Your Organic Pantry? And then the stages of spring, summer, fall and winter sections which get the reader back to the idea of eating according to the seasons.

I like what the author says in the Why Organic section of how food used to be grown organically and then things after world war 2 changed and quantity over quality became the key. Even though I note we as a country throw away more food than we grow or take to market. Many health problems came about when we went from natural to artificial means of growing food.

I was happy to see that the author discusses organically grown meats as well. And eggs as well as dairy items. Buying locally caught fish is her suggestion for fish and its a wise suggestion. And she even discusses the pros of wild game. Some people think that ranch raised pheasant is wild pheasant when in fact it is not.

The recipes are so vast and varied and its nice to see them listed according to the season. Like the sugar snap peas and potato cakes on page 22. The Orange steamed chicken and asparagus on page 31 is delicious and easy. The summer fruit pizza on page 136 is great for the hot days we have. And because we cook outside so much we love recipes like the Rosemary Grilled Figs on page 144 which is served with Warm Brie and kumquats.

The photography is great and like the best cookbooks the author lists calories, protein, carbs, fat, cholesterol, fiber and sodium.

Editorial Review:

Organic foods are the fastest-growing trend in cooking. In Your Organic Kitchen, nationally known chef and restauranteur Jesse Ziff Cool shows you the how's and why's of cooking with organics, from stocking your organic pantry to combining seasonal flavors and creating exciting, elegant dishes. Best of all, she offers up a treasure trove of 160 magnificent recipes that reflect her love of food and her commitment to sustainable agriculture and cuisine.

The Angelica Home Kitchen: Recipes and Rabble Rousings from an Organic Vegan Restaurant

Leslie McEachern

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for a vegan cookbook, this has a strange vibe 2 out of 5 stars.
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I'd been looking forward to getting this cookbook for months, and finally bought a copy through Amazon. I received it yesterday, and in the evening I settled down to peruse it. The recipes look quite interesting, and I was eager to try them.

But, I was very surprised to see the author references Sally Fallon on the topic of canola oil. Sally Fallon? The zealous anti-vegetarian crusader? The internet guru who claims you'll sicken and die, if not for consuming vast quantities of meat? Why is her name referenced as an expert in a vegetarian cookbook? If Fallon and her research are to be believed about canola oil, isn't Leslie McEachern in a way validating Fallon's entire ideology, which includes devout anti-vegetarianism?

McEachern might have found another authority to back up her ideas about canola, which is a controversial subject in itself.

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For over 25 years, New York City’s Angelica Kitchen has been widely regarded as the epicenter of the vegan universe. Located on a cozy, tree-lined street in the East Village, Angelica Kitchen offers a multitude of innovative dishes using only the finest organic ingredients delivered daily from local purveyors. In THE ANGELICA HOME KITCHEN, owner Leslie McEachern shares more than 100 of her favorite recipes as well as a wealth of information on sourcing, purchasing from, and supporting local organic farmers. Recipes for familiar favorites such as Sea Caesar Salad, Asian Root Vegetable Stew, Mocha Cheesecake with Chocolate Brownie Crust, and the famed Dragon Bowl have been carefully redesigned for the home cook, making THE ANGELICA HOME KITCHEN a must-have for creating delightful vegan dishes at home.

The Gardener's Table: A Guide to Natural Vegetable Growing and Cooking

Richard Merrill, Joe Ortiz

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A true marriage of the spade and the spoon! 5 out of 5 stars.
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`The Gardner's Table' by noted baker, Joe Ortiz and agricultural academic, Richard Merrill attracted me with Ortiz' name, known from his two excellent book collaborations on baking. And, I was immediately impressed by some of the novel graphic culinary material. Closer reading showed me that the horticultural material was of an equally high quality.

While I have read and reviewed hundreds of cookbooks and am much more familiar with the culinary content of this book, I have read a few gardening books in my time and turned a few clods of dirt in summers past, so I am not a complete newby with the gardening advice. I say this because it may have influenced my impression that the gardening advice is a lot stronger than the culinary advice. It may simply be that I am much more familiar with the culinary material, so it impresses me less. That being said, I will summarily say that I think one will have to look far and wide to find a book that does as good a job as combining these two closely related disciplines. I have reviewed only two, `The Arrows Cookbook' by culinary professionals who are horticultural amateurs with a good sized kitchen garden in Maine, and `Oriental Vegetables' by Joy Larkcom who seems to be an especially talented amateur at both cooking and gardening. Both are good books in their own little worlds, but neither can hold a candle to the wide world opened by this excellent volume.

The book is organized with alternating horticultural and culinary chapters where each author discusses his specialities at a pretty high level of expertise. There is no dumbing up of the material here. There are a few weak attempts to show similarities between culinary and horticultural techniques as in the analogous methods for producing a stock and a compost tea. These are cute, but the real common platform for the two disciplines is nutrition. How do you get the greatest yield of nutrients out of either a patch of ground or a batch of cooked veggies?

There are four major chapters, each beginning with a horticultural exposition followed by a culinary exposition. The first chapter may have the most important horticultural section, as it deals with climate and microclimates, choosing the best plants, planning your plantings, starting seedlings, planting in season, and rotating crops around your garden. One of the symptoms that this is not rote gardening advice is the agonizing over interpreting all the various planting zones. There are three with very different criteria and the most common, the USDA scheme based on the number of warm days can be very misleading. The culinary section to the first chapter is a bit weak and until I got to the second chapter, I thought maybe gardener Merrill was doing all the heavy lifting in this book.

The second chapter begins with a horticultural section devoted exclusively to getting to know your soil and improving it. In this chapter, the culinary section really picks up and offers us something really new. The section is primarily about pantry preparations such as gremolata, bouquet garni, harissa, fines herbes, and lots and lots of vinaigrettes. The high point of the culinary section in this chapter is what is called `The Mesclun Wheel' that places greens on a circular scale of most tart to sweetest with dandelion being at the sharpest and butterhead lettuce being the mildest. This would be interesting in itself, but the author doubles the interest by plotting vinaigrette ingredients against types of greens to show how to match up dressings with greens. This is the kind of wisdom that is rarely so effectively summarized and which is commonly acquired only after years of reading and experimenting with salads. This is the kind of schema a cook probably pulls forward in his mind when they plan a salad based on available ingredients.

The third chapter opens with every organic gardener's favorite topic, composting, and its related topics, humus and mulching. Having taken a few turns with a compost pile and having read a few Rodale Press items on the subject, I was still surprised to find something new to me, which was vermicomposting, or creating an environment which encourages worms to actively work on composting your biological waste. The culinary section deals with stocks and soups. The things which distinguish this section from your average introduction to soups are the discussions of combining vegetables to get the healthiest result and tips on preparing to cook in bulk. I find the emphasis on steaming as a method to preserve nutrients in vegetables to be pretty depressing, but the author redeems himself a bit by pointing out that cooking by several different methods is superior to eating raw vegetables, as cooking releases the nutrients in most veggies and makes them more easily available to our digestion.

The opening to the fourth chapter deals with garden pests, both animal and vegetable, and plants and animals that can assist in the battle with pests. For a book that is sharing its 470 pages between horticultural and culinary material, this discussion is remarkably detailed, including sidebars on equipment and techniques for examining garden fauna and a display of the life cycles of some of the most common pesky insects. This book would be superior on its own, but it enhances its value immeasurably by offering a detailed chapter by chapter bibliography which has more details on the many different topics touched upon in this book.

The second half of the book is something of an encyclopedia of the growing and eating attributes of the plants most commonly grown in the United States. Even this section has its pleasures to the casual reader, as it is very nicely organized by type of plant rather than by the alphabet.

To an old `Whole Earth Catalog' hippie like me, this book is pure gold. To anyone interested in both subjects but who is weak in one, I highly recommend this book!

Editorial Review:

In an indispensable book that will be a godsend for any home gardener or fresh-food enthusiast, noted horticulturist Richard Merrill and award-winning cookbook author Joe Ortiz (of "Village Baker" fame) team up to deliver the ultimate, no-nonsense, down-to-earth, simple-to-use guidebook to cooking from a kitchen garden. 50 recipes.

Organic Cookbook (Organic)

Eric Treuille, Renee Elliott

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Natural, nutritious, and flavorsome food for all the seasons of the year. Reawaken your tastebuds with the flavors and textures of the natural and nutritious ingredients used in the Organic Cookbook's delicious, satisfying recipes. Delicious, nutrient-packed meals result from the use of natural ingredients at their absolute seasonal best. To guide you through seasonal shopping, Organic Cookbook's comprehensive, at-a-glance fruit and vegetable calendar shows you the best time of the year to buy food at its freshest and most nutritious. In addition to this advice on what to look for in fresh produce and how to buy what is best on the day, Renee Elliot and Eric Treuille offer invaluable advice on effective storing methods to seal in the natural goodness inherent in organic produce. With simple meals that require minimal effort and are easy to prepare, the recipes in this collection ensure that every ingredient counts -- the aim is always to enhance, not disguise. Each recipe combines fresh ingredients to bring out the essential aromas, flavors, and nutrients to produce fresh-tasting, delicious meals every time. From flavorful soups for every season of the year, such as Potato and Parsley Soup or Ginger Squash Soup, to enticing desserts such as Upside Down Red Plum Caramel Cake or Chocolate Truffle Tart, Organic Cookbook provides you with simple organic options for every meal of the day.

Confessions of a Sneaky Organic Cook

Jane Kinderlehrer

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Author teaches lots of valuable tricks, including some good helthy gourmet recipes so that you too can make your family helthy when they're not looking.