Detroit's Eastern Market : A Farmers Market Shopping and Cooking Guide - Softcover

Johnson, Lois; Thomas, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967603609 ISBN 13: 9780967603605

Publisher: Lois Johnson & Margaret Thomas, 1999

Synopsis

In the public's protest against pesticides and chemicals, organic farming has played an important role in the quest for good and nutritious foods. It has helped shape our awareness of how we fuel our bodies. It has made us demanding of our food sources, so that we again care about eating fresh un-sprayed produce, free-range grain-fed poultry, and farm-fresh eggs. The foods and recipes in this book reflect Detroit's Eastern Market. They show the love and respect good food deserves. Many recipes come from generations ago--treasured family heirlooms still enjoyed today, some for everyday dinners, others for special celebration.

There are many farmers markets across the country, markets with similar histories, businesses and devoted customers. But Eastern Market, founded in 1887, is Detroit's jewel.

This book not only focuses on the foods, but on the people--farmers, vendors, store owners, customers--they are the core of the Market's life. They are the focus of this book. Through conversations, interviews, and observations we wanted to capture the personalites of these "food people." They have much in common--long days, early hours, the vagaries of the weather, and knowing they are essential to their community. They each have a different story to tell, a recipe to share.

About this title

Book Description:

New edition of this guide to Detroit's renowned open-air farmers market, featuring stories and recipes from four generations of families.

From the Publisher:

Since 1887, Detroit's Eastern Market, the largest open-air wholesale/retail market of its kind in the United States, has been home to an amazing community of farmers, merchants, and food lovers. Specialty shops, bakeries, spice companies, meat and poultry markets, restaurants, jazz cafés, old-time saloons, produce firms, gourmet shops, cold-storage warehouses, and much more cover the Eastern Market’s three square miles. Its many streets and vendors reflect the varied cultures and ethnicities that have shaped the city of Detroit.

In this new edition of Detroit’s Eastern Market, authors Lois Johnson and Margaret Thomas recount the history of the market with additional stories and personal accounts of families who have worked and shopped there for as many as four generations. The authors have updated store hours and added new restaurants to their original listing of the numerous businesses that line the Eastern Market’s streets—and there is now a map to guide your Market adventures. Also with thirteen new recipes, Detroit’s Eastern Market features more than eighty pages of delightful recipes from market retailers, farmers, chefs, and customers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lois Johnson & Margaret Thomas
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0967603609
• ISBN 13: 9780967603605
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 166