From sinking a seed into the soil through to sitting down to enjoy a meal made with vegetables and fruits harvested right outside your back door, this gorgeous kitchen gardening book is filled with practical, useful information for both novices and seasoned gardeners alike. Grow Cook Eat will inspire people who already buy fresh, seasonal, local, organic food to grow the food they love to eat. For those who already have experience getting their hands dirty in the garden, this handbook will help them refine their gardening skills and cultivate gourmet quality food. The book also fills in the blanks that exist between growing food in the garden and using it in the kitchen with guides to 50 of the best-loved, tastiest vegetables, herbs, and small fruits. The guides give readers easy-to-follow planting and growing information, specific instructions for harvesting all the edible parts of the plant, advice on storing food in a way that maximizes flavor, basic preparation techniques, and recipes. The recipes at the end of each guide help readers explore the foods they grow and demonstrate how to use unusual foods, like radish greens, garlic scapes, and green coriander seeds.
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Everything you need to know to start growing your own food This book is great. Well written with lots of information. It tells you everything you need to know to get started growing your own food. From the various parts of the plant that are edible, for example the leaves of beets are much like Swiss chard because the two plants are related to each other. She covers when the best time to harvest a plant ( it’s not always easy to tell) and then follows with great recipes. These are not your run of the mill recipes, the are filled with delicious unusual…
lovely book for cooks and/or gardeners This is a book for gardeners and cooks. It begins with a chapter on gardening fundamentals (soil, planting, watering, fertilizing and pest control), and then moves on to chapters based on plant type — herbs, greens, legumes, squash, cabbage, roots and bulbs, warm-season vegetables, and fruit. Each chapter covers 4-12 specific plants; for example, in the chapter on warm-season vegetables, several pages each are devoted to corn, eggplant, peppers, tomatillos and tomatoes. Each entry has one or…
Amazing! I saw this book in my local schmancy grocery store and was immediately struck by it’s sheer beauty. The photos are simply stunning. I was also intrigued by the concept of growing more food in my yard and eating food grown on my postage stamp lot. Still wary, I downloaded the sample on my kindle. Fabulous!!! The writing is exactly how I would write if I could write: simple, straight forward, every word packed with utility. I bought the kindle version straight away and proceeded to bookmark…