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Patricia Moore-Pastides, author of Greek Revivial: Cooking for Life, heads to the garden in this new cookbook that makes a do-it-yourself healthful lifestyle possible, offering guidance on how to pursue healthy eating, starting from the ground up. Moore-Pastides, an accomplished cook and public-health professional, presents all new recipes focused on bringing the bounty of the garden to the table in easy and accessible ways. Targeting young adults but valuable for all novices, Greek Revival from the Garden focuses on the time-tested Mediterranean diet--recommended for great taste, good health, and long life--and on learning simple, delicious cooking methods that foster a happy and healthy relationship with good food.
The growing section provides all the information necessary for those interested in organic gardening to cultivate an exciting array of fruits and vegetables in containers, raised beds, or yard gardens. Topics include preparing the soil, composting to create organic fertilizer, watering, working with basic tools, and dealing with common pests and problems. Color photographs are provided to inspire new gardeners toward more than just tomatoes and cucumbers.
Greek Revival from the Garden then invites the reader into the kitchen. This section assumes little prior cooking knowledge or experience and includes kitchen safety, common equipment and cooking methods, and observations from cooking class participants. The highlight of the cooking section are the recipes themselves: a beautifully photographed sampling of fifty mouth-watering dishes prepared with the harvest of homegrown vegetables as the stars, including garden gazpacho, curried butternut squash and apple soup, and nut crusted creamy almond fruit tart.
Throughout the book, Moore-Pastides inspires healthy habits by introducing simple ways to grow and prepare nutritious dishes, and promotes a long and fulfilling lifetime relationship with food from garden to table

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GREEK REVIVAL from The Garden YOUNG PALMETTO BOOKS Kim Shealy Jeffcoat - photo 1

GREEK REVIVAL

from The Garden

YOUNG PALMETTO BOOKS Kim Shealy Jeffcoat Series Editor 2013 University of - photo 2

YOUNG PALMETTO BOOKS
Kim Shealy Jeffcoat, Series Editor

2013 University of South Carolina Published by the University of South Carolina - photo 3

2013 University of South Carolina

Published by the University of South Carolina Press
Columbia, South Carolina 29208

www.sc.edu/uscpress

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Moore-Pastides, Patricia.

Greek revival from the garden : growing and cooking for life / Patricia

Moore-Pastides ; Charlie Ryan, horticulturist ; Keith McGraw, photographer.

pages cm. (Young palmetto books)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-61117-190-7 (hardback)ISBN 978-1-61117-191-4 (epub)

(print) 1. Cooking, Mediterranean. I. Ryan, Charlie. II. McGraw, Keith. III. Title.

TX725.M35M66 2013

641.59182'2DC23 2012043713

Frontispiece: Bitter melon on our garden gate

For Jean Coleman Moore and Penelope Jean Erickson

Peas Contents Enriching Your Soil Tools Carrots Preface Youve probably heard - photo 4

Peas

Contents

Enriching Your Soil

Tools

Carrots Preface Youve probably heard by now that we Americans are the fattest - photo 5

Carrots

Preface

Youve probably heard by now that we Americans are the fattest people ever to have walked the earth, and as a result were getting more and more unhealthy.

Is the problem with our food supply? Are we just eating too many calorie-intense fast-food meals? Or is the problem with our lack of exercise? Are we sitting around watching too much television, playing too much Xbox and PlayStation, and tweeting too much about it all?

I think its all the above, so Ive written Greek Revival from the Garden: Growing and Cooking for Life. This book provides everything you need to cook really delicious and healthful meals for your family and friends, and it will even help you start your own garden of fresh organic fruits and vegetables regardless of whether you have a big backyard or just a sunny porch.

There is a way of eating that scientists have been studying for more than fifty years. Its called the Traditional Mediterranean Diet; lets call it TMD. Research has shown that by eating lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts, seafood, and dairy in moderation, people live longer, healthier livesoften well into their nineties! The TMD doesnt include processed foods, foods that have colors or chemicals added, or foods heavy with animal fats and sodium like typical American fast foods.

The best news about the TMD is that, even if you dont grow your own, the ingredients are easy to find. The cooking methods are simple. And the tastes are really delicious!

Greek Revival from the Garden: Growing and Cooking for Life brings you two terrific skills that youll use your whole lifegrowing your own food and cooking it in the TMD way.

Warning 1: If you really get into the TMD, you may find that you cant eat fast food anymore because it tastes too salty and leaves your teeth feeling greasy! Warning 2: If you really get into the TMD, you may end up cooking for your family and friends. Not everybody is willing to try something new at first, but once they try it, wellbe prepared for a landslide of compliments!

I had a secret reason for writing this book: gardening and cooking are by far and away the best chores around the house! If I had known how to raise vegetables and cook when I was younger, I could have avoided cleaning out the linen closet!

Happy gardening and cooking!

A NOTE ON THE DEDICATION

One of the most wonderful aspects of gardening is being in the natural world, becoming more deeply aware, more sensitive to the cycle of life: germination, growth, blossoming, fruiting, seeding, and even dying as the soil is ultimately replenished by decomposing plant materials. Before gardening I never thought about the dying season of plants, but I felt it. In New England I sensed a time of sadness after the glorious red, orange, and gold foliage when the earth was overcast in brown and the sky grayed.

Still I didnt expect to be so energized by a move to the South. But the ever-present sunshine invigorated my body and spirit as Id wake up each day to the newfound energy of the sun.

As I write this, its actually raining: good, I dont have to fight with myself to stay focused at my desk, and Im reminded of how seriously we need this rain. Another life force of the natural world, rain perks up even the tail end of the scraggly cucumber vines and the toppling brown-edged tomato bushes.

I have dedicated this book to two very special people. The first is well-known to me: my beautiful mother, Jean Coleman Moore. Over the years Ive teased her about avoiding doctors, but in many ways she has followed her own path to healthy aging. She lives very naturally and is a healthy eater. Her diet is mainly vegetables, but she does eat some meats and fish at times. She doesnt smoke or drink (except when we celebrated her seventy-fifth birthday in Ireland and I convinced her to have a baby Guinness).

We recently spent a week in Connecticut. When I dropped Mom off at her home after dinner one evening, I looked into her eyes: at eighty-two years of age, she looked more beautiful than ever.

I think I know why: we had spent the evening holding a precious baby girl, her skin softer than a ball of cotton, her smile so broadly stretched that it revealed a dimple just beneath her right eye, and her laugh hearty and contagious for such a tiny person.

Penelope Jean Erickson was born on April 29, 2012, and on the night Ive described, she was three and a half months old but had the focused attention of a much older child. Of course I think she is a genius! She arrived in the world in time for my mother and me to be promoted on Mothers Day: Mom to Great-Grammy and me to Grammy.

So I am dedicating Greek Revival from the Garden: Growing and Cooking for Life to these two special people in my family. Mom, my wish for you is healthy longevity that we might share our grandbabys life for years to come and teach her to garden and to cook.

Penelope, my wish for you is that you are always surrounded by love, that you explore and have adventures that never end, and that you live every day with your special focused attention as you discover the wonders of this beautiful world. May you never smoke, always play and exercise, eat well from your garden, and take time to enjoy with all your senses this wonderful life.

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Young grapes

Acknowledgments

In embarking on a book that would appeal to young adults, I was encouraged by the University of South Carolina School of Library and Information Science, specifically Kim Shealy Jeffcoat, executive director of the South Carolina Center for Childrens Books and Literacy, and Helen Fellers, its coordinator and Reading Rooster. They were first to express excitement about the project and facilitated my research.

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