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This 352 page book celebrates the seasonal cycles of fresh produce and will inspire delicious, healthful foods for your table. Stories and fresh insights, with a sprinkling of humor, by nutrition experts, farm shareholders, field hands and author "Farmer John" himself, introduce new ways to think about food and farms.

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This 336-page book compiles more than 15 years of groundbreaking work into an accessible food reference, filled with the flavors, preparations and lessons of the world's great cusines and cooks. An eclectic resource to be sampled or savored, The Oldways Table is a treasury of great recipes, a dietary guide and an informed tribute to the worlds' most influential food traditions.

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Simple grains yield rich breads that range from the mystically light to the substantially chewy. These breads offer incontestable food value and flavor, and will satisfy and delight those sensitive to nutritional concerns.

The very act of bread baking itself provides a welcome diversion from the computer screen or office — and a gratifying result, no matter one’s other occupations!

Two sisters, whose family has operated a mill for two generations producing stone-ground flours, provide these recipes from family and neighbors in West Virginia.

Here are more than 180 recipes for breads, sweet rolls, international grain dishes and desserts. Each recipe is explained in thorough detail for novice as well as experienced baker.

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From best-selling author, Wanda E. Brunstetter, comes the must-have cookbook of the season. Her Amish Friends Cookbook collection is a treasure trove of recipes and interesting facts from the heart of Amish country. Recipes are divided into sections including breads and rolls, desserts, main dishes, sides, jams, jellies and more! You'll find only the best of home cooking between the pages of this delightful book.

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Buy them at a farmers' market, a grocery store, or a roadside farmstand. You can also pick them in daily batches from your own garden. No matter where you find your vegetables, their fresh-from-the-earth goodness demands inspired preparation. Andrea Chesman shares more than 175 recipes designed to bring out the very best in whatever produce is peaking now. From spring's first Peas and New Potato Salad to autumn's sweet Caramelized Winter Squash and Onion Pizza, serving up the harvest has never been so delicious!

512 pages, 8 x 9 trim size, two-color illustrations throughout.

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This collection of mouth-watering recipes from Rosalind Creasy, will help you celebrate the incredible flavors of the garden-fresh herbs, fruit and vegetables waiting in your backyard. Feast on delicious, fresh salads, and indulge with several delectable appetizers and entrees.

Featuring delicious recipes for vegetarians and meat eaters for family breakfasts, solo lunches and grand, celebratory dinners this indispensable cookbook will broaden your food horizons and inspire countless delicious and healthy meals.

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From oats, rice and whole wheat to farro, barley and quinoa, no grain is left unexplored in this compendium of more than 75 healthful recipes. You'll find a tasty dish for every meal of the day: Quick Skillet Flatbreads made with millet or teff for breakfast, or a hearty dinner entre of lamb and rye berries braised in red wine. Even desserts get the whole-grain touch with such sweets as Chocolate-Chunk Buckwheat Cookies.

The source list will help you find the more unusual options, and a glossary describes each grain in detail. The New Whole Grains Cookbook makes it easy to eat your grains and love them, too.

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Are you looking for simple ideas to save money? The MOTHER EARTH NEWS Guide to Living on Less has dozens of ideas to help you save money on food, housing and energy, while also living a greener life.

These strategies for living lightly are simple, satisfying and even fun. Here are a few of the articles you’ll find in this special collection:

• For big energy savings that can also help you save money check out our “8 Easy Projects for Instant Energy Savings.”
• Ready to start a garden, or make your existing garden bigger?
• Read “Easy Garden Anyone Can Make” for an easy plan that will have you growing more vegetables in no time.

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The newest book by award-winning author Barbara Kafka is a testament that vegetables are so varied that they deserve their own cookbook.

Vegetable Love is divided in six chapters, the first four are dedicated to history and recipes of the vegetables of the New World, Europe and the Arab World, Asia and Africa, and vegetables available around the globe, what she calls Citizens of the World, respectively. These chapters offer detail descriptions of each vegetable and their specific recipes.

The last two sections are reserved for basic recipes and cooking techniques so you can learn to makes sauces, dressings, dough, stocks, rice and much more. The last, and perhaps most useful, section, is a guide where you can read about each vegetable, how to buy, store, wash and cook it in different ways. This guide will show you how to cook everything from anise and cactus pads to dandelion greens and wasabi. With Kaka's detailed descriptions you'll know, for example, that 1 medium bunch of radishes yields ¾ cups trimmed and quartered, or that 8 cups of raw scallions, equals 1 cup cooked.

With more than 700 recipes, you won't run out of ways to prepare what vegetables you find at your farmer's market. This is not a strictly vegetarian cookbook however, Kafka includes many recipes where meats, chicken and fish complement the wonderful taste and texture of vegetables.

About the author: Kafka is the author of eight other cookbooks, including Soup, A Way of Life, and Microwave Gourmet. She has a Lifetime Achievement Award from the James Beard Foundation.

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For people who are tired of counting calories, carbs, fats, and points, this book makes nutrition count instead! Whole foods are nutrient-rich foods—those foods that offer a complete balance in nutritional value while in their natural, unrefined, unprocessed state. They are high in antioxidants, phytochemicals, and essential fats and oils, and are low in saturated fats and sugar.

Whole Foods Diet Cookbook is the ultimate whole foods, healthy-lifestyle, weight-loss cookbook. With chapters that educate and recipes that are delicious and satisfying, you'll learn how to get down to the nuts and bolts of making nutritious meals. The book includes such recipes as slow-cooker summer citurs salmon, pumpkin pie smoothie, Reese swirl brownies and Tex-Mex polenta pizza with chipotle-black bean hummus, and rotisserie chicken—home cooks will fight over who gets to make supper!

The health and weight loss benefits of the flexitarian lifestyle—eating primarily vegetarian foods while still allowing everyday consumption of high-quality animal products such as grass-fed meat and fish—are also explored. Fresh ideas and recipes for today's food tastes range from elaborate to simple, including a mix of upscale comfort foods, ethnic cuisine, and gourmet meals for just about any occasion and any time of day.

About the Authors:

Ivy Ingram Larson earned her BS degree from Palm Beach Atlantic University and is an American College of Sports Medicine certified health fitness instructor. She currently teaches whole foods cooking classes at culinary stores.

Andrew Larson, MD, is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a board-certified general surgeon with a special interest in surgical nutrition.

Ivy and Andrew Larson are the authors of two other books, The Gold Coast Cure and The Gold Coast Cure's Fitter, Firmer, Faster Program. The couple lives in North Palm Beach, Florida with their son.