The Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook: Local Food, Local Restaurants, Local Recipes (Homegrown Cookbooks) - Hardcover

Renewing The Countryside

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0760331421 ISBN 13: 9780760331422

Publisher: Voyageur Press, 2008

Synopsis

This photography rich book is a love song for local food. Through narrating the stories of 31 Minnesota chefs and restaurants, the Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook offers 100 recipes that celebrate cooking with local, sustainably grown food. The passion of these chefs, and the farmers they work with, sings throughout the pages.

This cookbook combines rich traditions and delightful innovations. The mouth-watering fare of world-class bed-and-breakfasts is here, alongside the saucy mix of cultural cuisines from kitchens at the Twin Cities’ Café Brenda, Spoon River, Lucia’s, Heartland, and the delectable slow cooking of eateries like the New Scenic Café in Two Harbors and Minwanjige Café in Strawberry Lake. Mixing the familiar comfort food of Minnesota’s roots in the culture of Northern Europe with the fine new flavors of world cuisine, these recipes comprise a travel guide through Minnesota, with illustrated profiles of chefs and farmers, of food and farms.

The Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook is the newest release from Renewing the Countryside (RTC), a Minnesota-based non-profit organization that champions the positive stories of rural revitalization. In additional to developing books, RTC produces educational programming around local foods and sustainable agriculture including the Local Food Hero radio show, the Healthy Local Foods exhibit at the State Fair’s EcoExperience and Green Routes, a sustainable tourism initiative.

About this title

About the Author

Tim King is a Minnesota organic vegetable farmer and agricultural journalist. He's grown everything from organic garlic to strawberries, apples, bell peppers, and herbs. As a journalist he has written hundreds of articles on organic farming and the workings of the organics industry. Tim is also a cofounder of two Twin Cities farmer's markets, past program manager for the Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota, a founding board member of the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, and a cofounder of the Whole Farm Cooperative. Alice Tanghe is a food writer with more than 20 years experience. She was the publisher of Minnesota Palate magazine, and is now creating an online version supporting the spirit of "Creating Community Through Local Food." An avid cook, she's has more than 500 rare cookbooks in her kitchen.Alice Tanghe is a food writer with more than 20 years experience. She was the publisher of Minnesota Palate magazine, and is now creating an online version supporting the spirit of \u201cCreating Community Through Local Food.\u201d An avid cook, she\u2019s has more than 500 rare cookbooks in her kitchen.Tim King is a Minnesota organic vegetable farmer and agricultural journalist. He's grown everything from organic garlic to strawberries, apples, bell peppers, and herbs. As a journalist he has written hundreds of articles on organic farming and the workings of the organics industry. Tim is also a cofounder of two Twin Cities farmer's markets, past program manager for the Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota, a founding board member of the Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, and a cofounder of the Whole Farm Cooperative. Alice Tanghe is a food writer with more than 20 years experience. She was the publisher of Minnesota Palate magazine, and is now creating an online version supporting the spirit of "Creating Community Through Local Food." An avid cook, she's has more than 500 rare cookbooks in her kitchen.Garrison Keillor is a native Minnesotan. His old-style radio variety show, A Prairie Home Companion, has reported on the world of Midwestern winters, Lutherans, and Norwegian bachelor farmers since 1974. He is the author of more than 30 books.

From the Back Cover

I grew up a few steps from a half-acre vegetable garden and it pretty much ruined me for fine dining forever after. When you ve eaten sweet corn ten minutes removed from the stalk, you ve experienced intense sensual pleasure at a young age and what can the great chefs of New York and Paris offer to compete with it?

Garrison Keillor, from the Foreword

Good food is locally grown food. Many of Minnesota s finest restaurants use locally grown produce and meats to create their finest dishes. The Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook celebrates the best of our state with 100 local recipes from 38 local chefs and restaurants, cafés, and bed & breakfasts using incredibly fresh ingredients from regional farmers, markets, and organic producers. Inspired by these growers and chefs, now you too can be spoiled forever!

From the Inside Flap

I can never be a boy again standing barefoot in a garden on a sunny day and holding a ripe tomato in my hand don t really want to be him anyway but this lovely book gives me hope that something beautiful that I thought had passed away has actually come full circle and that other people in Minnesota share this same longing for fresh food.

Garrison Keillor, from the Foreword

Minnesotans live close to the land and love good food, so we expect the best tasty dishes with the freshest ingredients, locally grown and true to our roots. And this is the kind of culinary regionalism celebrated in The Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook.

Here are 100 recipes from 38 of Minnesota s outstanding chefs and restaurants with a special commitment to locally grown, organic, sustainable cookery.

Recipes come from Lucia s, Café Brenda, Spoonriver, Heartland, New Scenic Café, Angry Trout Café, Restaurant Alma, Brasa, Bryant Lake Bowl, Barbette, Red Stag, Bayport Cookery, Birchwood Café, Hell s Kitchen, Nosh, and many more bistros and world-class bed & breakfasts from across Minnesota.

Mixing the familiar comfort food traditions of Minnesota s roots with flavorful innovations, these recipes comprise a travel guide through our state, with illustrated profiles of each restaurant, chef, farmer, and uniquely appetizing locale.

Edition details

• Publisher: Voyageur Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0760331421
• ISBN 13: 9780760331422
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160