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This practical guide to the planting, harvesting and use of more than 35 herbs and 30 different vegetables provides information on garden construction, gardening and techniques (including crop rotation and seed starting) and harvesting. There are also culinary tips on how to get the best flavour from everthing from asparagus to spinach, angelica to thyme and includes more than 50 easy-to-prepare recipes, such as gazpacho verde, sweet potato muffins and blueberry lemon tart. The book is a companion volume to Sundays At Moosewood Restaurant.
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Booklist Review
The restaurant most associated with launching organic cooking has now compiled its wisdom on back-to-nature gardening, a movement sure to become integral to the 1990s. Even black-thumbers will be able to design plots and nurture seeds and plantlets from the ground up as Hirsch provides directions with both detail and wit. Including not only the ubiquitous American patch of tomatoes, zucchini, basil, and parsley, but also 66 other more unusual vegetables and herbs, Hirsch's tome features getting started, cultural requirements, harvesting, and culinary tips. Yen to decorate a salad with edible flowers? Instructions are here, including the tip to avoid daffodils and iris and substitute carnations and roses. This collection wouldn't be complete without the savory, simple dishes the restaurant is known for, and there are over 50 recipes, such as Portuguese kale soup, vegetable "pasta," and peppermint butter wafers. Throughout is the sense of a worker's--and gardener's--dream of a business. Mail-order sources, nurseries, and suppliers appended. ~--Barbara Jacobs
Library Journal Review
In what is called ``a gardening book for cooks and a cookbook for gardeners,'' Hirsch offers brief seed-starting instructions, cultural requirements, harvesting instructions, garden design plans, and culinary tips for a variety of vegetables and herbs. He also includes general gardening techniques, insect control, and recipes from the Moosewood kitchens. Of special interest are the culinary tips, especially for less-common vegetables and for herbs. This book has the visual attractiveness of the other Moosewood titles, with charming initials and line drawings on the text pages, decorative title pages for each section, and garden plans and drawings throughout. Not a necessary purchase, this may be desirable in libraries serving sizable vegetarian populations. (Index not seen.)-- Carol Cubberly, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
