So, I’ve been dying to review Eating Local: The Cookbook Inspired by America’s Farmers for awhile now, but I wanted to wait until I had a chance to try some of the recipes. With CSA season starting, I had the chance to sample a few.
Here’s a video that talks about why the author wrote this book:
Part of what I love about this book is that it is written from the perspective of CSAs. The photos of the recipes are gorgeous, and various CSA farms are featured.
From the publisher’s website:
One hundred and fifty easy-to-follow recipes focus on using locally grown ingredients from farms engaged in community-supported agriculture (CSA) as well as farmers’ markets.
The cookbook is organized alphabetically by main ingredient to make it easy for you to figure out what to make with the arugula from your CSA box or the abundance of strawberries at peak season from your farmers’ market.
Eating Local also takes you on a wonderful editorial and photographic journey to 10 small farms across the country. An up-close look at these noteworthy farms and the people who cultivate them reveals how hard work and a passion for sustainability yield wholesome and delicious products perfect for eating and living locally. Hardcover; 304 pages.
These are not your run of the mill recipes. Many of them use specialty oils (and describe how to make them yourself!) and cheeses. Recipes like Stuffed Artichokes with Pine Nuts and Currants and Mexican Pork Stew with Tomatillos use simple ingredients but are complex enough to satisfy foodies.
I loved just reading through this cookbook; I can’t wait to make more of the recipes in it.
Congratulations Shelly, the winner of the giveaway!
Disclosure: The publisher provided a free copy of this book for me to review. It in no way influenced my opinion of this book.
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I have recently made a commitment to eating locally as well as cutting out processed foods and making food from scratch at home for me and my hubby. So I would love any extra inspiration that this cookbook would offer me!
Just found your site! It is great! I have just recently started cooking more whole foods- especially local! I am obsessed with cooking and would love to try out this new cookbook! Thanks so much!
My husband and I have recently been inspired to eat only locally grown, organic foods for an entire month. We are tracking our progress at: http://locallygrownmeghan.blogspot.com/
We have so many hopes for this month but not a lot of recipes to go with them! Most nights I end up just guessing and throwing things together. With fresh, in season produce it’s hard to make a meal that doesn’t taste good, but we’d still love an actual recipe to follow every now and again!
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Cooking local makes so much sense. It saves on transportation costs & you’re also helping your local economy.
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Because we’re trying to eat local and healthy and frugally
I love learning about new recipes and techniques, thanks for the chance!
I love food, cooking, and farmers markets
I love cookbooks! This one sounds wonderful.
I would love to win this as I have switched my family’s eating from processed to homemade with an emphasis on eating more produce, grass-fed meat, pastured eggs, etc. This would be a cookbook that I’d actually use instead of collecting dust on the shelf.
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I try to eat locally grown fruits and vegetables (easy to do in my area of the country) and would enjoy getting this new recipe book.
I would love to start eating more locally. I am planning on going to the Farmers market this weekend
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i always try to eat locally, that’s why i have my husband plant a garden each year. i would love to receive this cookbook.
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I am always on the lookout for inspiring recipes
I would like to win because I’ve bought a CSA share and would love to have recipes for my local vegetables.
This would help me in my green endeavors!
I’d love to win this one as I love cooking using local produce. I’m sure I’d cook from this one often.
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I am a huge fan of farmer’s markets and i try to eat local as much as possible. I live in a huge farming/ orchard area. I am surrounded by apple/ cherry trees and grape vinyards. I have my own garden and am always looking for new reciepes.
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This cover photo immediately caught my eye. I find that after picking up my CSA veggies at Trillium, I’m often tempted to leave them on the counter as a decorative statement. I would love to win this cookbook to enhance my skills and broaden what I do with these beautiful vegetables.
I just subscribed to the blog on My Yahoo!, but have been checking it every day anyway to read your recipes. I love it!
I think that farmers are the most unappreciated, uncelebrated profession out there. I love that this books brings not only attention to many farmers but encourages readers to seek out the folks in their neighborhood
I’m trying to eat local and this would give me a good kick in the pants.
This sounds like a wonderful cookbook. I need to find ways to make interesting meals incorporating more vegetables.
The reason I would like to win is that no one has enough cookbooks. Love to read them, use them for wonderful food, and share those recipes with others.
I would love to win, I could use some help!
I love shopping at farmer’s markets and buying locally grown food. It makes me feel better about the food I cook and eat.
Would love to add this to my cookbook collection! Living in southern California, I have a large vegetable garden & many fruit trees so I’m forever on the look-out for new ideas & recipes for the abundance of produce I have; my roma tomato, sweet peppers & summer squash plants are producing like crazy right now!
I would love to win because my family has been incorporating organic, locally grown foods into our diet. I feel it is very important and it something we are happy to share as a family. Thanks for the amazing giveaway
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i would love to win because i love to cook
I’d like to win because I am a foodie, I love to cook and shop regularly from local farmers in my rural community.