Excerpted here from
“Garden Bytes From The Big Apple” blog:
book reviews and
give away!
Dear Readers,
Ellen & Ellen are offering two new
and very different books as giveaways. We've reviewed them both below and look
forward to judging your comments! Write a few sentences about your
favorite discovery growing edibles (if you want book # 1) or orchids (if you
want book # 2). It might be something most gardeners know but you
unearthed for yourself, or a secret you're ready to share with the world.
We're looking for personal experiences,
either positive or negative. Please post your comments by Oct.12th and we'll
announce by Oct. 19th. And please don't enter for both books; we want to
spread the literary joy as wide as we can.
The Hamptons & Long Island
Homegrown Cookbook, by Leeann Lavin
is a lavish book of conversations with farmers from the fertile North and
South Forks of Long Island, along with top local chefs. Leeann profiles
these Farmers and Chefs as co-dependents in the dance of the local harvest.
Large and lush photographs by Lindsay Morris & Jennifer Calais Smith make
you want to run this weekend to one of the fabulous restaurants that base their
menus on local and seasonal crops at their freshest.
Farm-to-plate is a hot topic these
days, and on Long Island it makes a lot of sense because the crops are so
diversified; from seafood of all types caught by local fishermen, to local wine
from the vineyards, cheeses, and of course the greens, beets, corn, tomatoes,
raspberries; fruit and veg of all kinds. Recipes look extremely flavorful, yet
simple to produce, enticing enough to try.
In a regional book of this kind, part
of the fun is in personal recognition; my moment came in the profiles of Chef
Eberhard Muller and his wife Pauline Satur of Satur Farms. I had dined in
Paris at the Michelin three-star L'Archestrat where Muller had been chef and
where I first tried a miraculous new concept called a tasting menu.
Now living in Manhattan, I order my groceries online from Fresh Direct, which
offers a special category of local foods; Satur Farms greens have often been on
my marketing list.
This book will surely please you if you
have any connection at all to the area, or know someone who does. ESP
http://www.gardenbytes.com/2012/09/book-reviews-and-give-away.htm
Enjoy and good luck!
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