The secret to transforming easy dishes into extraordinary meals? Fresh herbs. In The Herbal Kitchen, IACP award-winning cookbook author and acclaimed chef Jerry Traunfeld presents simple dishes using herbs straight from the market, windowsill, or garden. The Herbal Kitchen includes some recipes that are home variations of the innovative dishes Traunfeld prepared at Herbfarm Restaurant, while others are fresh takes on familiar classics.

Paradigm-shifting, The Kitchen Ecosystem will change how we think about food and cooking. Designed 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 the 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 save 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.

With The Kitchen Pantry Cookbook you can create your own staples-fresh, delicious and just the way you like them. Chef Erin Coopey shows you more than 90 recipes and variations to personalize your pantry. You'll never go back to the bottles.

The Lemonade Cookbook takes the bold flavors, imaginative dishes, and southern California lifestyle that have made the Lemonade brand an instant hit and captures them in a fresh, beautifully designed, full-color book. Like Los Angeles, Lemonade's cuisine is carefully blended with variety. L.A. is agents and movie grips, surfers and yoga moms, students and celebrities, and a wide mix of different culinary traditions. At Lemonade the marketplace salads, unique sandwiches and slow-simmered stews taste as though every culture stirred a bit into the pot.—Take, for example, the skirt steak with grilled onions and piquillo peppers: With its smoky depth, it pairs perfectly with the snappy salad of Chinese long beans, plums and scallion vinaigrette.

A comfortable place where locals and visitors enjoy a rotating daily spread of deliciousness, Lemonade serves up dishes that are a perfect fit for today’s on-the-go lifestyles and perceptive palates. The recipes collected here, more than 120 in all, stress simple cooking preparation with a global taste. And, of course, it wouldn’t represent L.A. without amazing desserts. From banana mascarpone layer cake to caramel fleur de sel macaroons to peanut butter milk chocolate cookies, there are recipes for treats galore, plus 10 different recipes for delicious flavors of lemonade. The Lemonade Cookbook: Southern California Comfort Food From L.A.'s Favorite Modern Cafeteria speaks to all cooks who want to make sophisticated highly urban "comfort food" with ease.

Delicious home-cooked meals your family will love with almost no prep time—it’s positively magical!

Grab your wand (or ladle) and get ready to whip up the healthiest, easiest-to-make food you’ll ever eat. Full of wholesome ingredients and flavors you have to taste to believe, these meals are faster than the drive-thru and much cheaper too! You won’t be able to resist.

• Raisin Bread French Toast Casserole
• Country Scalloped Potatoes
• Pork Carnitas
• Pot Roast Dips with Horseradish Cream Sauce
• Pumpkin Flan

With dozens of fantastic recipes for breakfasts, dinners, appetizers and dessert, this cookbook is perfect for busy families.

Experience the magic of your slow cooker every day of the week!

Founded by Johns Hopkins University, the "Meatless Monday" campaign counts among its fans Michael Pollan, Sheryl Crow and Paul McCartney. From Baltimore Public Schools to the city of Ghent, Belgium, the eat-less-meat buzz is spreading worldwide. With reports about the ill effects of consuming too much meat (for us, and for the environment), The Meat Lover's Meatless Cookbook speaks directly to lifelong meat lovers who know it's time for a change but need an accessible and nonthreatening guide to wave them into the kitchen and get them started. Written by a fellow meat lover who can relate to the challenges of dietary change, The Meat Lover's Meatless Cookbook dishes up 52 tasty and satisfying meatless menus (one per week) that mirror the do-able, incremental approach recommended by environmental and medical communities.

The American supermarket seems to represent the best in America: abundance, freedom, choice. But that turns out to be an illusion. The rotisserie chicken, the pepperoni, the cordon bleu, the frozen pot pie, and the bacon virtually all come from four companies.

In The Meat Racket, investigative reporter Christopher Leonard delivers the first-ever account of how a handful of companies have seized the nation’s meat supply. He shows how they built a system that puts farmers on the edge of bankruptcy, charges high prices to consumers, and returns the industry to the shape it had in the 1900s, before the meat monopolists were broken up. At the dawn of the 21st century, the greatest capitalist country in the world has an oligarchy controlling much of the food we eat and a high-tech sharecropping system to make that possible.

Back 40 years ago, more than 35 companies produced half of all the chicken Americans ate. Now there are only three that make that amount, and they control every aspect of the process, from the egg to the chicken to the chicken nugget. These companies are even able to raise meat prices for consumers while pushing down the price they pay to farmers. And tragically, big business and politics have derailed efforts to change the system.

We know that it takes big companies to bring meat to the American table. What The Meat Racket shows is that this industrial system is rigged against all of us. In that sense, Leonard has exposed our heartland’s biggest scandal.

Food brings us together … as families and as communities. So there is no better place to begin creating a healthier and sustainable community than around a shared table.

The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center Cookbook is a beautifully illustrated collection of 200 unique and delicious vegetarian recipes from the renowned California-based farm, educational retreat center and eco-think tank.

The center has a passionate ethos about eating seasonally, and this book shows readers how to cook based on what is available in the garden. This unique cookbook incorporates ingredients from all seasons, including weeds, flowers, herbs, nuts, fruits, mushrooms and other forages. The recipes also include the quantities and measurements necessary to cook for a crowd, making each dish perfect to cook at home or share at parties, potlucks and community events.

With sample seasonal menus to inspire cooks throughout the year, the cookbook offers a wide range of recipes such as: Carrot and Chamomile Soup, Summer Squash Ribbons with Purple Shiso, Roasted Asparagus and Nettle Risotto with Pea Tendrils, and Pepita-Encrusted Squash Blossoms Stuffed with Goat Cheese and Mint. There are cold vegetable plates for warm summer picnics, and readers will learn how to create delicious salad dressing recipes for garden-fresh greens, including Loquat Ginger, Golden Tomato Cumin, and Preserved Lemon Brine. There are comfort foods like pots of savory Biodiversity Beans and Winter Sourdough Pizza, and warming snacks like Toasted Hazelnuts with Thyme. Readers can top a plate of veggie sides with a generous dollop of one of the center’s famous sauces and pestos, and learn how to infuse their own Honey Syrups for homemade cocktails. Last but not least, there’s delicious standout desserts like Fresh Fruit Fools, a Dark Roast Winter Squash Tart with Hazelnut Crust, or the Cardamom-Rose-Plum Bars.

This informative cookbook will help gardeners seeking new ways to cook with their vegetables, farmers market shoppers looking to expand their repertoire, home cooks who want to cook healthy for their family or host a big dinner party, chefs in search of inspired recipes using weeds and perennial fruits and vegetables, and community-based organizations who cook for crowds on a regular basis.

The Omega Diet provides: -seven simple dietary guidelines for optimal physical and mental health -a concise guide to the foods you need to restore your body's nutritional balance -a diet plan that lets you eat fat as you lose fat < -50 delicious recipes that are quick and easy to prepare -a comprehensive three-week menu to help you get started

The first canning manual and cookbook authored by a Michelin-starred chef and restaurant owner, The Preservation Kitchen reveals a world of endless flavor combinations using revolutionary ideas that bring homemade preserves deliciously to life. Pairing science with art, Paul Virant presents expert preserving techniques, sophisticated recipes, and seasonal menus inspired by the award-winning fare at his restaurant, Vie, in Western Springs, Illinois. Imaginative tangy jams, brandied fruits, zesty relishes, cured meats, and sweet and savory conserves are the focus of the first half of this book, while seasonal menus pairing these preserves with everything from salads and cocktails to poached fish and braised meat compose the second. Brandied Cherries used in Cherry Clafoutis, or as a garnish for the Beer-Jam Manhattan, are a sweet reminder of the summer harvest. And the Chicken Fried Steak with Smoked Spring Onion Relish anticipates warmer days when you’re still deep in winter. Alongside recipes and menus, Virant draws on his extensive technical knowledge and experience to provide detailed and comprehensive guidelines for safe canning practices, testing pH, pressure canning, water bath processing, and storing. But no matter how precise the science, Virant never forgets the art in each handcrafted preserve and thoughtfully developed recipe. His unique approach re-imagines seasonal eating by harmonizing opposite or unusual partnerships: the brightness of summer fruit may be tempered with the earthiness of meats and winter produce, or the delicacy of spring vegetables might be enriched by the robust herbs and spices more typical of fall. The Preservation Kitchen not only demonstrates and instructs, it encourages and explores the limitless possibilities of capturing the seasons in a jar.

The Real Food Cookbook takes 150 classic dishes, from starters, soups, and salads to the center of the plate, to sweets and the cheese course, and makes them anew, transforming them with Nina’s signature approach: using fresh herbs, good butter, seasonal fruits and vegetables, grass-fed and pastured meats, and whole grains. With essays and tips throughout, sharing Nina's own real-food lifestyle, The Real Food Cookbook will provide inspiration for any omnivorous cook or eater. Find recipes for every occasion: a cheese plate with drinks, a family Seder, Easter egg salads, a summer barbeque.Learn how Nina stocks her pantry and where she buys real food.Whether you’re preparing the meals or simply eating them, everyone will enjoy the stories, feast on one hundred gorgeous full-color photographs, and beg the family cook to make the meals Nina loves.

An instant classic for a new generation of monkey-wrenching food activists.

Food in America is cheap and abundant, yet the vast majority of it is diminished in terms of flavor and nutrition, anonymous and mysterious after being shipped thousands of miles and passing through inscrutable supply chains, and controlled by multinational corporations. In our system of globalized food commodities, convenience replaces quality and a connection to the source of our food. Most of us know almost nothing about how our food is grown or produced, where it comes from, and what health value it really has. It is food as pure corporate commodity. We all deserve much better than that.

In The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, author Sandor Ellix Katz profiles grassroots activists who are taking on Big Food, creating meaningful alternatives, and challenging the way many Americans think about food. From community-supported local farmers, community gardeners, and seed saving activists, to underground distribution networks of contraband foods and food resources rescued from the waste stream, this book shows how ordinary people can resist the dominant system, revive community-based food production, and take direct responsibility for their own health and nutrition.

Chapter Topics Include:

• Local and Seasonal Food versus Constant Convenience Consumerism
• Seed Saving as a Political Act
• Holding Our Ground: Land and Labor Struggles
• Slow Food for Cultural Survival
• The Raw Underground
• Beware the Nutraceutical: Food and Healing
• Plant Prohibitions: Laws Against Nature
• Vegetarian Ethics and Humane Meat
• Feral Foragers: Scavenging and Recycling Food Resources
• Water: The Source of All Life

About the Author Sandor Ellix Katz is a self-taught fermentation experimentalist. He wrote Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods—which Newsweek called "the fermenting bible"—in order to share the fermentation wisdom he had learned, and demystify home fermentation. Since the book's publication in 2003, Katz has taught hundreds of fermentation workshops across North America and beyond, taking on a role he describes as a "fermentation revivalist."

Soup, beautiful soup -- the most basic of cooked foods, the universal cure-all, a nourishing way to use small amounts of food or leftovers, a dish that can always be stretched to feed more …

Once again award-winning chef Aliza Green invites you into her kitchen to share her time-tested techniques for making dozens of soups, bisques, chowders, and purées. From the basic foundation of stocks to the older, European-inspired concoctions, such as Zuppa Pavese and French Onion Soup, Green outlines the origins, ingredients and steps necessary to create a warm and satisfying culinary experience every time. Explore more than 100 soup recipes, plus variations on each one, from all over the world, and in every style of soup you might want to eat. Recipes include:

• Hungarian Woodlands Mushroom Soup with Sour Cream and Paprika
• Tuscan Pappa al Pomodoro
• Senegalese Peanut and Yam Purée with Ginger
• Provençal Soupe au Pistou with Savoy Cabbage, White Beans, and Leeks
• Wild Salmon Chowder with Sweet Corn & Gold Potatoes
• Tom Kha Gai (Thai Chicken Coconut Soup)
• Cream of Cauliflower with Nutmeg and Chives
• Kerala Red Lentil Soup (vegan)
• Vietnamese Pho Soup with Beef Brisket
• Caribbean Callalou Soup with Crabmeat and Coconut

Accompanied by Steve Legato's clearly detailed, full-color photography, your soup making success will be effortless. Inside you'll find a wide-ranging collection of recipes to suit every palate, including seafood, poultry, pork, beef, vegan and vegetarian formulas, and a wealth of information you will use over and over again in your culinary endeavors.

Basic Stocks:
• The importance of using your vegetable water, roasting juices, trimmings, seasonings, and the right vegetables to get optimum flavor from your stock

Soupmaker's Tips:
• Ingredients prep: how to correctly wash, slice, and dice
• When fresh versus frozen is important
• Using flavor enhancers such as fresh herbs and appropriate spices
• How to get the best results from the proper utensils
• Invaluable time-savers
• Creative serving suggestions

Basic Techniques:
• How to properly chill soup
• The process of cooking dried beans
• The correct shredding method for cabbage
• The art of cutting leaves into chiffonade
• And many more!

With more than 60 recipes for down-home favorites, ranging from Chicken and Cornmeal Dumplings to Buffalo Stout Beer Chili to Brown Beans and Fatback, The Southern Slow Cooker is packed with real Southern flavor.

The family that author Tiffany Moen and her husband raise together has always been a creative, spontaneous, make-it-happen group of folks. As the family continued to grow through adoption, Moen had to stretch each dollar to fill stomachs.

Catering to this growing crowd (nearly one in four Americans self-identifies as a flexitarian), The With or Without Meat Cookbook makes it simple for people to savor the tastes and health benefits of eating more like a vegetarian, while being able to stick to a balanced meal plan for diabetes. Each of the 125 diabetes-friendly recipes is vegetarian with a non-vegetarian recipe "add-on" provided, as well.

Who doesn’t love chocolate? Here are delicious sweet and savory chocolate recipes, along with the fascinating story of how North America’s first organic and fair trade chocolate factory came to be (and why they are so passionate about how their chocolate is made).

Theo Chocolate is dedicated to making the world a better place. From bean to bar, Theo Chocolate uses organic ingredients and is committed to fair trade practices, working closely with farmers around the world who grow the cocoa beans used in their chocolate. This book not only shares Theo’s story and their passion for doing the right thing, it also celebrates the decadent pleasure of enjoying excellent chocolate thanks to 75 recipes to make at home (accompanied by full-color photographs throughout).

As American as apple pie? How about As American as freshly baked bread? Before we became reliant on mass-produced supermarket loaves, the United States had a rich history of homemade bread recipes, from flaky and light Southern biscuits to hearty Boston Brown Bread … not to mention the uniquely tangy San Francisco Sourdough. Adrienne Kane has unearthed these vintage recipes, given them a modern twist where appropriate, and collected them all in United States of Bread. Both novices and experienced bakers can delight in these American favorites, including Pullman Loaves, Amish Dill, Cinnamon Raisin Swirl, New York Flatbread, Wild Rice Bread Stuffing, and lots more. United States of Bread is a charming collection that will inspire everyone to get in the kitchen to celebrate America’s home-baking legacy.