Julia Shanks - The Farmers Market Cookbook: The Ultimate Guide to Enjoying Fresh, Local, Seasonal Produce

Praise for

The Farmers Market Cookbook

You know how you go to the farmers market and
you buy all sorts of amazing produce but never know what
to do with it all when you get home? Well, this book is what.
Its advice is clear and instructive, its recipes delicious and,
most importantly, manageable. Along with all those wonderful
fruits and vegetables, this book belongs in your market tote.

Adam Rapoport, Editor in Chief, Bon Apptit

In this handy guide/cookbook, Shanks and Grohsgal
offer practical tips on how to store and prepare your
farmers market and CSA veggies.

Mat Schaffer, The Boston Herald

A book of imaginative and simple recipes for
an abundance of vegetables and fruits.

Omar Sacirby, The Boston Globe

Just leafing through will inspire you to head out to
your local farmers market and start cooking.

Taryn Plumb, Taste of the Seacoast

[Shanks and Grosgahls] collective wisdom on culinary
techniques and fresh produce has helped to create a highly
targeted guide with dozens of seasonal recipes that
maximize freshness and flavor.

T.W. Barritt, author, Long Island Food: A History from
Family Farms & Oysters to Craft Spirits

Really, really, really fantastic! [The Farmers Market Cookbook]
offers cooking tips, how to store [the produce]
and how to use it right.

Annie B. Copps, chef, writer and cooking teacher

More praise for

The Farmers Market Cookbook

I love farmers markets, and often pick up quantities of
fruit and vegetables just because they look so good and then
am left wondering what to do with them. [This book] solves
this problem, with lots and lots of tempting recipes that
are creative without being overly complicated.

Lis Stern, author, Culinary Tea

The recipes are easy to follow and a great beginning for
the new cook or a great launching platform for the experienced
or adventurous cook. Great recipes enhance the fantastic quality
of the produce I receive from my CSA each week.

Mary U., Lusby, MD

Even though Ive been cooking all my life and have a
collection of literally hundreds of cookbooks, using this cookbook
has gotten our whole family even more invested in participating
in the CSA program...its like a how to manual for being
a CSA member...what to do when its just me and that
box in the kitchen at dinnertime.

Ruth K.

I highly recommend this [cookbook] to help CSA members
make the best use of the seasonal vegetables available from their
farmers. Thanks for providing the cookbook for us!

Kathryn P., Washington, DC

Copyright 2016 by Julia Shanks and Brett Grohsgal. All rights reserved.

Cover design by Diane McIntosh.

Cover photo iStock. All illustrations Genevieve Goldleaf.

Printed in Canada. First printing April 2016.

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Shanks, Julia, author
The farmers market cookbook : the ultimate guide to enjoying fresh,
local, seasonal produce / Julia Shanks and Brett Grohsgal

Includes index.
Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-0-86571-822-7 (paperback). ISBN 978-1-55092-615-6 (ebook)

1. Cooking (Natural foods). 2. Farmers markets. 3. Local foods.
4. Cookbooks. I. Grohsgal, Brett, author II. Title.

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To our mothers, Roberta and Judith,
who taught us how great food can be!

And to our fathers, Clifford and Hershel,
who taught us the beauty of the written word.

We have written this cookbook to help farmers market customers and CSA subscribers easily enjoy the diverse bounty of local farmers crops.

Brett worked in restaurants for over 18 years, being the chef, the executive chef, or a hustling line cook in over 14 establishments. Foods as fresh and intensely flavorful as what his farm (Even Star Organic Farm in Lexington Park, MD) now grows were almost never available. Then, he and his kitchen staff instead had to make do with chemically intensive but flavor-deficient shipped produce. Now his farm customers eat infinitely better. It is glorious to be a seasonally oriented farmer, growing traditional and cutting-edge foods in all twelve months of the year. His family is happy to grow organic and real tomatoes, real strawberries, real everything.

Julia met Brett when they cooked together at Restaurant Nora in Washington, DC. She learned first-hand about the difference in organic produce and what it means to cook seasonally. She worked as a chef in three restaurants, and as a line cook in many more. As a culinary instructor, she helped countless students really learn the differences between local foods and insipid out-of-season tomatoes. In her backyard, she grows vegetables seven months of the year in her tiny urban garden.

We proudly disregard the absurd dogma that the market only cares about uniform and cheap foods and is concerned not a whit for safety or for flavor. We grow and eat artisanal foods, slow foods in European terms, and Even Star will never farm for distant markets where looks are paramount and where safety and flavor are not even important.

The incredible number of people who buy locally make our farming possible. You actively and tangibly support local growers. The passion of Even Star customers for outstanding foods gives us long lines at farmers markets when our ripe heirloom tomatoes ugly to see but oh, so wonderful to taste are pouring out of the fields. It is refreshing to so often hear loyal patrons describe our petite but intensely aromatic and sweet strawberries to newcomers: Yes, theyre small. But these are real berries, and the big ones have no flavor! We only buy small strawberries now! Your devotion and willingness to spread the word about great local foods empowers farmers to focus on farming. You advertise and market for us by spreading the word about the great flavors and economic benefits of locally grown produce. The gifts that loyal customers bestow on farms are immeasurable, and we deeply thank you.