Mary Beth Lind - Simply in Season: Recipes and inspiration that celebrate fresh, local foods

Its more than recipes. Its part mystic, part activist and part gourmand. Rebecca Sodergren, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette challenges the reader to be in touch with how food is produced by choosing food that is in season and has not traveled a long distance from farm to table. Barb Draper, Canadian Mennonite what you read here comes from a voice that is pastoral, not judgmental expect to be lovingly challenged in your decision to eat what is fresh and in season. Graham Kerr, former Galloping Gourmet clearly created with enormous love and respect for food and for the earth. Pamela Haines, Friends Journal practical, not preachy.

Its down-to-earth and useful to everyone, regardless of faith. Melinda Hemmelgarn, Columbia Daily Tribun truly inspired with pages youll be turning slowly, reading and absorbing as you go. Lorraine Stevenson, Farmers Independent Weekly guaranteed to please any palate and satisfy any appetite. Midwest Book Review a treasure trove of culinary delights centered around local and seasonal foods, that goes easy on the wallet and the planet. Katrien Vander Straeten, Suite101.com Ive tried a few cookbooks that were advertised as seasonal, but the only one to live up to its cover blurb has been Simply in Season. Simply in Season is also a guide to intentional, sustainable eating. Holly Yaryan Hall, cookware.dealtack.com We have started a new tradition of reading these tidbits aloud at the dinner table They are excellent opportunities for educating our children about the ethics of eating. An Agrarian Journey blog celebrates the idea of eating seasonally, savoring the bounty of foods at their natural ripening, the time of their peak deliciousness. Karen Herzog, Bismarck Tribune offers both practical steps and short inspiring testimonials that will help us think more about our grocery shopping. Cindy Crosby, Faithfulreader.com a beautiful and useful cookbook. Growing for Market Woven throughout are writings, tidbits of information to reflect upon while the onions saut, the soup boils, or the bread bakes. Leslie Kedash and Margaret Gilmour, Chester County Dwell blogSimply in Season is practical, not preachy. Leslie Kedash and Margaret Gilmour, Chester County Dwell blogSimply in Season is practical, not preachy.

Its down-to-earth recipes and colorful illustrations are useful to everyone, regardless of faithor cooking skills. Melinda Hemmelgarn,Learn2Grow.com .provides the basics for changing the modern food system, one vegetable at a time. The recipes are healthy classics with straightforward directions, without the health-nut complexities. sustainabletable.org Eating seasonally and locally gets easier the more you do it, and if you are equipped with a good resource like Simply in Season the recipes are easy to follow, budget-minded, and dont contain any exotic ingredients. Eatlocalchallenge.com a resource that testifies powerfully toand enables us to embodyour faith in the Creator who provides abundantly for all people and all creation. Karla Stoltzfus, Vision the book Ive been waiting for for years.

A book that tells me exactly what is in season when and what I can do with it. EatFeed podcast With simple recipes and whole ingredients, this compilation from over 450 cooks and tasters from around the world brings you the basics of seasonal eating, with recipes ranging from the familiar to the unexpected A great introduction to seasonal eating. Sustainablekitchen.org A great cookbook whose goal is to help you eat lots of local produce, in season, and on a budget. What could be better? veggicurious.com

Simply in Season

Mary Beth Lind and Cathleen Hockman-Wert

Commissioned by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) to promote the understanding of how the food choices we make affect our lives and the lives of those who produce the food. MCC is a relief, community development, and peace organization of the Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches in Canada and the United States. Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Lind, Mary Beth.

Simply in season: a world community cookbook / Mary Beth Lind and Cathleen Hockman-Wert Expanded ed. p. cm. Commissioned by Mennonite Central Committee. Includes index. paper) - ISBN 978-0-8361-9494-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. paper) 1.

Cookery, American. I. Hockman-Wert, Cathleen. II. Mennonite Central Committee. Title. Title.

TX715.L7575 2009 641.5973dc22 2009017640 Bible text is from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA and is used by permission. Photographs from Corbis (cover, pp. 3, 11, 14, 19, 23, 26, 27, 29, 30, 82-84, 180, 181, 238, 240), Photos.com (pp. 7, 11-13, 15-17, 19, 21, 22, 25, 26, 28, 113, 145, 294, 353-55, 361, 363, 365), www.thinkvegetables.co.uk/mwmack (pp. 12-18, 20-27), Alamy (pp. 16), Cathy Passmore (p. 8), Julie Kauffman (cover, pp. 3, 239, 292), Jenna Stoltzfus/MCC (pp. 3, 11, 15, 19, 24, 231, 293, 350). SIMPLY IN SEASON, Expanded EditionCopyright 2009 by Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa. 15683 Published simultaneously in Canada by Herald Press, Waterloo, Ont. N2L 6H7. N2L 6H7.

All rights reserved First published 2005. International Standard Book Number: 978-0-8361-9493-7 (spiral edition) International Standard Book Number: 978-0-8361-9494-4 (paperback edition) Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2009017640 Printed in Canada Cover and book design by Julie KauffmanProject originally coordinated by Mark Beach 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 To order or request information, please call 1-800-245-7894 or visit www.heraldpress.com. They shall all sit under their own vines and their own fig trees, and they shall live in peace and unafraid. (Micah 4:4)

Preface

F irst published in 2005, Simply in Season is a community cookbook about good food: foods that are fresh, nutritious, tasty, and in rhythm with the seasons. This Expanded Edition adds seventeen new recipes to more than three hundred in the 2005 edition. 351), or your own garden, fresh local foods are good for the earth we share. 351), or your own garden, fresh local foods are good for the earth we share.

Ultimately, they nurture our spirits as well as our bodies. Simply in Season explores the complex web of factors that brings food to our plates. Before the advent of modern transportation and storage systems, eating local food was the normas it still is in much of the world. Within our memories we see our parents and grandparents with hands full of fruits and vegetables from their gardens or gardens nearby. Eggs, milk, and meat also came from local sources. Today, the average food item travels more than a thousand miles before it arrives on our tables.

We have become distant from our food, and not just in terms of geography. Who grows our food? What are their lives like? How is the soil cultivated and prepared for the next year? How are the animals treated in life and in death? How does the production of the foods we eat affect the land and the people who raise them? Does any of this really matter if we have plenty of food on our table? It matters a great deal. For food production systems are not all the sameany more than the taste of a vine-ripened, homegrown tomato equals one picked green. Each food purchase we make is like a vote for the way we want food to be producedand for the world in which we want to live.