Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini

The Essential Reference 500 Recipes and 275 Photographs

by Elizabeth Schneider

The author explores each vegetable in depth, with information on identifying, buying, and cooking, and recipes from chefs around the world. The book is notable for the completeness of its coverage, giving the lowdown on vegetables still unfamiliar to the American market, such as amaranth, oca, broccolini, and perilla. Nominated for a 2002 James Beard Award.

Available editions of Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini

	9780688152604, Hardcover, Harpercollins, 2001 $65.92 (New) Other copies of 9780688152604

Publisher Notes

Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini: The Essential Reference is at once an encyclopedia, a produce market manual, and a treasure trove of recipes. With produce specialist Elizabeth Schneider as your guide, take a seed-to-table voyage with more than 350 vegetables, both exotic and common. Discover lively newcomers to the North American cornucopia and rediscover classic favorites in surprising new guises.

In this timely reference, Elizabeth Schneider divulges the secrets of the vegetable kingdom, sharing a lifetime of scholarly sleuthing and culinary experience. In her capable hands, unfamiliar vegetables such as amaranth become as familiar as zucchini -- while zucchini turns out to be more intriguing than you ever imagined.

Each encyclopedic entry includes a full-color identification photo, common and botanical names, and an engaging vegetable "biography" that distills the knowledge of hundreds of authorities in dozens of fields -- scientists, growers, produce distributors, and chefs among them.

Practical sections describe availability, selection, storage, preparation, and basic general use. Finally, the author's fresh contemporary recipes reveal the essence of each vegetable and a culinary sensibility that food magazine and cookbook readers have trusted for thirty years. Each entry concludes with a special "Pros Propose" section -- spectacularly innovative recipes suggested by professional chefs.

Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini: The Essential Reference is an indispensable resource for home cooks, food professionals, gardeners, information seekers, and anyone who simply enjoys good reading.

Media Reviews

"The book's size and weight...might discourage casual cooks from using a volume that is as much an encyclopedia and textbook as a cookbook; the summary recipes from chefs, with ingredients and techniques but no quantities or timing, will be of use mainly to professionals. And every professional will need this landmark volume, a tribute to one writer's passion and patience."

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