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"Stylish, practical meals that put vegetables first, by "an authentic culinary star" (Boston Globe) and the founding food editor of Martha Stewart Living. After spending two decades at a leading lifestyle magazine, Susan Spungen is used to the questions cooks ask her in the produce aisle and at the farmers' market. Do you have a great zucchini recipe? What can you do with garlic scapes? What's an easy seasonal meal I can make for friends? In Veg...

Presents planting and growing advice for 224 varieties of unusual vegetable and herbs from around the world, including the Cape gooseberry, Middle Eastern molokhia, Asian celtuce, Japanese winter squash, and Thai basil.

Details the nutritional value of fifty fruits and vegetables, highlighting which foods best boost immunity, heart health, and mood, and includes over one hundred fifty recipes to prepare each ingredient.

This follow-up to Carr's "New York Times" bestseller "Crazy Sexy Diet" is a Veggie Manifesto for plant-empowered gourmands and novices alike, and it's filled with inspiration, education, cooking tips, and more than 150 nourishing, nosh-worthy recipes. Like a long, luxurious meal, Crazy Sexy Kitchen is laid out in courses. You’ll start with a detailed review of the Crazy Sexy Diet. Next you’ll learn how to stock your culinary arsenal....

"Go from "what the heck is this" to "how does it taste so good" in this celebration of misfit vegetables"-- "Go from "what the heck is this" to "how does it taste so good" in this celebration of misfit vegetables. Maybe you just discovered celery root (a lumpy, softball-sized bulb), at the grocery store. Or perhaps you received watermelon radishes in a CSA package. Did a parsnip catch your eye at the farmers��� market? Even vegetables you...

"Author Drew Ramsay and Chef Jennifer Iserloh thought it would be fun to create a cookbook that merged two of the most popular trends sweeping America: bondage and kale. So they teamed up to quickly self-published an ebook: 50 Shades of Kale. And it turned out to be more than just fun-27,000 downloads later, they realized they were onto something. Now for the first time in hardcover, the book has been redesigned; re-shot with beautiful 4-color photography;...

Real Food Makes a Real Difference. As a bestselling author and co-founder of the widely popular website Simple Green Smoothies, Jen knows the impact food can have on your body, your health and your dreams. Before switching to a plant-powered diet, Jen Hansard felt exhausted, stressed-out and frustrated with her body. After a wake-up call from her husband, she set off on a mission to put foods in her body that would allow her to go after the things...

Misconceptions about winter gardening are everywhere: that it's too difficult, slow, or even impossible. But long before the convenience of grocery stores, people in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries used fresh, all-natural winter gardening to keep fruits and vegetables on the table even during the coldest months of the year. Feeding your family fresh food from your own backyard garden all winter long is far easier and less time-consuming that...

Nacho won't eat anything but gazpacho soup until his mother takes him to the supermarket and he sees the many piles of different vegetables there.

"International gardening and cooking expert Sarah Raven shares her wealth of knowledge about how to have a bountiful--and beautiful--kitchen garden. With the belief that we should all grow more of what we eat, she imparts her experience on making the mostof any outdoor space along with sage advice about the best things to grow and harvest easily and efficiently along with their culinary uses"-- "This beautifully photographed guide celebrates the...