Fine Cooking In Season: Your Guide to Choosing and Preparing the Season's Best

This title is accompanied by beautiful photography and information on keeping ingredients fresh. This resource of garden vegetables, fruits and herbs of all kinds will help home cooks embrace the thrill of discovering and cooking with something new and fresh, whether store-bought or straight from the garden. Today's home cooks want to embrace the bounty of every season and cook with unusual ingredients, or use simple ingredients in creative ways. Featuring 100 ingredients and 300 recipes arranged by season, readers will enjoy the thrill of discovering new flavours as well as learning different methods of preparing common fresh produce. Each ingredient is accompanied by a beautiful photograph and in-depth information on how to choose it at its peak and keep it fresh, as well as preserving ideas and surprisingly delicious pairings. Plus, all the recipes from the editors and contributors of "Fine Cooking" are tested by "The Fine Cooking" test kitchen staff so home cooks will get sure-to-work, delicious results from their fresh bounty, whether grown at home or purchased at the farmer's market or grocer's.