John Michael Lerma's Garden County - Softcover

John Michael Lerma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0929636503 ISBN 13: 9780929636504

Publisher: Syren Book Company, 2005

Synopsis

Prize-winning author and chef John Michael Lerma's delicious recipes and menus for all occasions and tastes.

Celebrating occasions with friends and family is one of the best joys in life. But not everyone celebrates the same occasions, and not everyone has the same type of "family." John Michael Lerma invites you and yours to sit at the Garden County table, where everyone is welcome to share fresh vegetables, dips, drinks, cakes, salads, and more at your special event: Academy Awards Night, GLBT Pride Celebration, commitment ceremony, or a regular weekday night. Here you will find ways to make everyone feel welcome and to fill them with the good cheer of great cooking.

About this title

From the Publisher

Garden County is a real place: author Lerma's backyard. It is also a state of mind, a place of many planes and only one constant: everyone, EVERYONE is welcome to sit at the table--you, the invited guest, and the four second cousins who happen to be visiting you on that night. Not unexpectedly, most writers of cookbooks love food, and good food, but Lerma's true joy is in the circle of friendship, which includes everyone who enteres his home and garden.

Lerma's lyric descriptions of both food and friends--the palpable pleasure he takes in both--is infectious, and is what makes reading this volume so rewarding.

The recipes, which follow this theme, are grouped around what he terms "Gatherings": parties, dinners, well--gatherings--of his extended family, who congregate to celebrate Unions, Pride, Housewarmings, and the Academy Awards.

Lerma's "menus" for these events are mouthwatering. One notes that his Chocolate Truffle Cheesecake won the Ghirardelli Chocolate Recipe Contest. --Lavender Magazine 10/18/05

About the Author

John Michael Lerma grew up on a farm in North Dakota where he learned from his grandmother how to grow fruits and vegetables, prepare large meals, and can preserves. John Michael was a recent “double” winner at the 2005 American Pie Festival in Celebration, Florida sponsored by Crisco and filmed for the Food Network. He has also won numerous honors at the Minnesota State Fair over the past 5 years including Best of Fair for his Sweet Cucumber Pickle Relish—awarded by Gedney Pickle Company—and the Ghirardelli Chocolate Recipe Contest for his luscious Chocolate Truffle Cheesecake. He is the director of Culinary Tours to Italy sponsored by Il Refugio in Cortona, Tuscany, and is a member of Slow Food USA. He lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with his partner Chad and their daughter Heather.

Edition details

• Publisher: Syren Book Company
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0929636503
• ISBN 13: 9780929636504
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 192