The Farmers' Market Cookbook [Hardcover]

'The food at Farmer's Markets is brilliant, and so are Nina's recipes' - Peter Gordon; 'Filled with inspired ideas... celebrates fresh ingredients simply cooked' - You Magazine; 'A much-needed and useful cookbook... Planck is perfect' - The List; 'Full of dewy pictures of berries and squash...it makes you want to rush home and dig a kitchen garden, or, failing that, hotfoot it to your nearest farmer's market' - Financial Times; 'A colourful cookbook full of delicious recipes. This is a good practical book and the pictures make it a mouthwatering read' - Organic Way; 'A celebration of the vegetable treasures to be found in farmers' markets throughout the land, packed with clear, concise recipes, written in no-nonsense style' - Farmers' Weekly; 'A beautiful and practical cookbook - Alongside wonderful recipes Nina explains what the farmer knows - and the cook should know about fruit and vegetables' - Hartlepool Mail; 'Nina Planck has got her psychology spot on - now we have an excuse for that moment of madness that results in six rosemary plants, an alarming kilo of wild mushrooms, and a couple of smoked trout' - What's On --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

‘The food at Farmer's Markets is brilliant, and so are Nina's recipes' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

This book reminds those of us numbed by the supermarket shopping experience about what is available in each season, what to expect and look for at the market, and suggests simple recipes such as pork chops stuffed with apple and horseradish. A celebration of fruit and vegetables found in farmers' markets.

For people who love simple food but don't know the seasons
Do you wonder when home-grown asparagus is in season? Do you know why not to buy El Santa strawberries? Do you set out for the supermarket, a long list of ingredients in hand, hunt down every one, only to come home to overly-complicated recipes? THE FARMERS' MARKET COOKBOOK will teach you when asparagus is mature, why not to refrigerate tomatoes, and how cucumbers should taste. The secret? Go to the market (or where-ever you shop for fresh food) and buy what looks good.Then read about, say, Jerusalem artichokes, and learn to make a simple soup with leeks. If you like it, you'll cook without a recipe the next time. That's how simple good food is. Shopping without lists and cooking without recipes are two of life's great pleasures. Eating food the way YOU like it is another. Forget the celebrity chef culture and learn what YOU want to learn about food instead...

Nina Planck founded London Farmers' Markets in 1999. She grew up on a fruit and vegetable farm in Virginia and has sold at farmers' markets since she was 9 years old. In London, Nina was a journalist on Time Magazine and a speechwriter to the US ambassador. Now she organises farmers' markets full-time. She is 29. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.