Food from Green Places: Vegetarian Recipes from Garden & Countryside

By Rosamond Richardson

In more than 150 recipes, Rosamond Richardson strikes a fine balance between old-fashioned goodness and modern trends in international cuisines. Adapting traditional ideas to today's techniques and eating habits, she provides easy instructions for such delicious creations as Spiced Carrot Soup, Asparagus Fritters, Pur e of Brussels Sprouts, Apple Crisp, and Iced Plum Souffl . Recipes for timeless favorites include Damson Jam, Walnut Bread, Onion Tart, Strawberry Shortcake, and Crab-Apple Jelly.
Food from Green Places also describes old country traditions, including searching the countryside for wild edibles, cultivating herbs, rearing hens, and preserving and storing fruit and vegetables, all illustrated with specially commissioned full-color photographs by Robin Matthews. Richardson has gleaned information from old handwritten cookbooks, history, and folklore to create modern recipes that will appeal not only to vegetarians but to others who celebrate the pleasures of freshly gathered food.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789204193
• ISBN13: 9780789204196
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Eating with the seasons

This is the greatest book if you forage for wild spring greens, or eat a variety of fruits, vegetables and herbs from your garden. Europeans eat much more variety than our supermarkets offer, and these simple recipes are invaluable. Basic recipes for vinegrette, mayonnaise, pesto etc and simple soups and desserts for all seasons. Some cookbook recipes are so complex, it's nice to see a book that assumes that one will just make a light meal of sorrel soup and crepes. I often give this book as a gift.

nice gift for veggies

Gave this as a gift for a vegetarian friend. She loves it, its got a lot of helpful information for growing and eating veggies.