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| Homegrown Pure and Simple: Great Healthy Food from Garden to Table | 
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| Author: Michel Nischan
Creators: Mary Goodbody, Susie Cushner
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 589980
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 232
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 8.9 x 1.2
ISBN: 0811844722
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.563
EAN: 9780811844727
ASIN: 0811844722
Publication Date: August 18, 2005
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Condition: In stock - Sent fast from British booksellers.
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| Customer Reviews:
 A seed that won't sprout October 4, 2006
2 out of 14 found this review helpful
If I had had one minute with this book in a bookstore I would have known the title was a terrible misnomer, but I ordered it online. The book has nothing to offer on the subject of raising your own food for the table. It is a cookbook by someone who had a vegetable garden for ONE YEAR before writing it. There are no strategies for gardening and no insider knowledge of what it actually takes to raise produce consistently enough to eat. He just likes the idea. Well, I do too. As a longtime gardener and cook, I was hoping to learn something new. I didn't.
 wonderful, pure and simple June 14, 2006
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I really like this pure and simple cookbook. The recipes are so beautiful!!
This isn't your usual vegetable cookbook December 6, 2005
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
Vegetable gardening and recipes seldom blend so seamlessly as in Homegrown Pure And Simple: Great Healthy Food From Garden To Table. Here's a compendium of dishes spiced with color photos by Susie Cushner throughout which celebrate both gardening and cooking. This isn't your usual vegetable cookbook, either: Grilled Lamb Chops with Home-Dried Tomatoes and Citrus Yogurt and Pistachio Pork Loin with Pumpkin Sauce are dishes not to be found in any cookbook. That's because author Michel Nischan has served up healthful haute cooking at a range of upscale restaurants: so these are largely his own inventions.
What we all need to read December 2, 2005
23 out of 26 found this review helpful
Delicious, appetizing recipes fill this book, all of which were made from the freshest organic ingredients, giving a pure simple taste. An excellent second book by Michel Nischan, winner of a James Beard cookbook award in 2004 for his book, Taste Pure and Simple.
Michel Nischan grew up in Illinois where his mother grew most of their fruits and vegetables. His love of food coninued as an adult where he became the executive chef of Heartbeat in the W Hotel (NY-1997). Nischan is a contributor to numerous magazines including: Bon Appetit, Gourmet, Cooking Light, and much more. He has also appeared on various television programs. He is the founding member of New American Farming Initiative. He currently lives in Connecticut with his wife and five children.
Mary Goodbody is a food writer who has worked on over 45 cookbooks.
Susie Cushner is a photographer whose work has appeared in Real Simple, Gourmet, Martha Stewart Living and more. She has worked on numerous books: The New England Table, The Cape Cod Table, The Pleasures of Slow Food and The Bride & Groom First and Forever Cookbook.
Michel Nischan yearned for the days where his mother grew all their vegetables in their garden when he was a child. With the tragic findings that two of his five children were diagnosed with Juvenile Diabetes (at ages five and two), his focus on his cooking changed. He decided that not only should he and his family eat healthier, but also his restaurant customers. This book has been inspired by his children and his desire for fresh pure ingredients without the use of cream, butter, processed starches or processed sugars. Michel has made it his mission to educate people on eating and cooking healthier.
This is more than a cookbook, but also a book filled with cooking and gardening tips, planting seeds, storing produce, sterilizing jars, choosing knives, and handling food. There is an excellent glossary in the back of the book, as well as a list of sources if some items are hard-to-find in your area. And I must comment on the gorgeous photographs throughout this book.
This book has even received kudos from the American Heart Association and Alice Waters.
The book is broken down by the following chapters: My Garden and How It Grew; Salads; Soups; Main Courses; Side Dishes; Extending the Harvest; Breakfast and Breads; Desserts. The recipes are wonderful. They are simple to make and extremely tasty. In fact, I never even noticed, initially, that the book had no recipes laden with fat and sugar! Some of my favorites in this book were: Osaka Mustard Greens Salad; Pumpkin Soup with Crispy Sage Garnish; Baked Fresh Ham with Roasted Apple and Almond Salad; Skillet-Browned Broccoli and Cauliflower with Pan-Toasted Garlic; Homemade Applesauce; Butternut Squash Muffins; and Sweet Corn and Toasted Almond Rice Pudding.
In our society, where everything runs at such a fast pace, I think it is time to slow down, and appreciate life and family. Eat healthier. Buy this book!
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