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 had my eye on this cookbook. I am so excited to hear a good review as there as so many “local” cookbooks out there that are completely unrealistic or bogus. My family recently went through the kitchen transformation to “local or nothing” and this accounts for 85% of our kitchen. It’s exciting, but we are still learning. We have had to teach ourselves if it’s not available now you have to wait (and we are canning and freezing now in preparation for the cold months) and it has allowed us to be more creative and come together as a family. We all go to the farmers markets (my son’s favorite 3 days of the week), we grow our own food, and we create together. I would love this cookbook to keep the motivation going and to enhance the creativity in the kitchen, plus I love reading cookbooks.
Are ya kiddin’ me??? THIS is the very cookbook I was lusting, er, I mean longing for just yesterday at the farm! Count me in. Count me in. Count me in.
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Great giveaway for all of us learning how to cook real food. I’d love a copy as this is my first year with a CSA & it’s going to present some challenges on what to do with it all. This book looks like a good reference indeed. I’m a follower of your awsome blog already
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I would love to learn how to cook more vegetables and I am thinking of joining our local CSA in the FALL (I’m in S. Florida). The only thing holding me back, is what to do with all the vegetables I’ve never heard of.
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I would love to win this book because my goal for the summer has been to buy more local produce! I live in the Poconos of PA, and we have plenty of local farms, and I am working on supporting as many of them as I can find! However, as you know, some of the stuff you find at farm markets is not like the stuff you are used to, and I would like to find ways to use this stuff to feed myself and my husband!
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I would love to win this book because I always spend my sundays at the local farmer’s market trying to get as much local produce as I can..Time well spent…Thank you!!!
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I’d like to win because I love to cook.
I’d love to win this cookbook! My husband and I have been starting the shift toward eating more local food this year, and we’re still learning (just made kohlrabi for the first time last night)!
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I joined a CSA for the first time this year. It has been a great adventure so far. This book would help me cook up that great produce. I need ideas!
What a wonderful cookbook!! I would love to win so I can learn new ways to use the abundance of local produce around me here in Washington. I am part of a weekly cooking group and we love heading out to orchards and other places to get the produce we need. I know we’d have great fun using recipes from this book.
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I’d love to win because I belong to a CSA and I would like to learn better ways to use the produce!
Thanks for the giveaway!
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I’d like to win because for the past two years, I have made a concerted effort to eat locally, and to cook more.
I would love to win so I could find some great recipes to use my garden grown vegetables in. Also I would love to be able to feed my family more fresh foods and I think this would help greatly with that.
I’d love to win because I’m so interested in eating local!
I’d love to win. I support food grown in a 100 mile radius of my home. Plus, who doesn’t love a good cookbook.
Farmers Market has opened here in Kent WA on Saturdays. I love the choices of fresh vegetables and fruits. Some of the produce is brand new to me and I am not sure how to prepare it. This cookbook would be an invaluable tool to me.
This sounds like a fabulous cookbook, one I’d like to add to my collection and use.
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There are so many reasons to eat locals. It’s better for the environment. You can support the local economy. The best reason, however, is that the food tastes so much better when it’s farm fresh. I would love this cookbook for all of these reasons!
I would love this cookbook. I am loving my CSA and would love to have some more recipes to add to my arsenal.
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Sounds like a great cookbook! Would love to try out the CSA-focused recipes.
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I am a local food junkie. This cookbook looks gorgeous!
My almost 6 year old daughter has multiple health issues that started around the age of 18 months. This past March, we finally got the diagnosis I have been trying to get to for four years…. ulcerative colitis. Now we’re following the Specific Carbohydrate Diet in an effort to see if it can help relieve some of the symptoms of her illnesses, and this means I am cooking ALOT – spending most of my time in the kitchen. I need inspiration and would love to win this book!
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I have type 2 diabetes and have found that flavor is the biggest help in following the diet. Local produce definitely has the best flavor, and this cookbook would be great
I’d love to win this, we’re trying to eat more produce in season and try new things. Thanks!
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I love eating local. I try to whenever I can.
This is so perfect for me-I have been trying to eat food from within 100 mile radius now for about a year. It is harder to do in the winter so can use some tips on that.
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I’d love to win this to help me with my garden! I’ve got lots of goodies coming in from it during the summer and am always looking for recipes. Plus, I’d browse thru the book and see if there were other things that I could grow and enjoy!
I would love to win this, as I am always exciting to read another’s prospective on cooking and to try new recipes.
love to win because I’m looking for real food recipes
I’d love to win so I can be inspired to eat more vegetables and incorporate them into my cooking!
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I want/need a copy of this book so I can compare/take notes while I continue to fantasize about writing my own local foods book. Imitation is the best form of flattery, right?
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I want to win because I love going to my local farmer’s market for fresh fruits and vegetables.
I buy alot of extra fruits and vegetables from the farmers market, and dehydrate them. Then I can use them in the winter. I would love this book to get some extra ideas.
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i’d like to win because i’d love some new recipes
I would love to win. Anything to help me cook is wonderful.
I would love to win if only to get some recipe ideas for all the wonderful local produce that is starting to be in season.
I woant to learn about new recipes to cook with the freshest foods and maybe learn about some new items
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Thank you for entering this in the Green Giveaway Monday Linky! I’d love to win this because I’m trying hard to eat ONLY locally grown at home this year. That, and I’m getting a Bountiful Basket as soon as I get down to Phoenix in the fall so I’ll need all the help I can get to start cooking with all the cool veggies I’ll be getting then!
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I buy alot of extra fruits and vegetables from the farmers market, and dehydrate them. Then I can use them in the winter. I would love this book to get some extra ideas.
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I’d love to win this because I really want to start to eat more local! I’m having problems figuring out how to make it work in a very urban environment and anything would help!