After beginning with some simple cooking techniques to take advantage and even enhance the unique flavors of home-grown (or even store-bought) fruits and vegetables, the book is organized in a typical cookbook format --appetizers, soups (hot and cold), entrees, side dishes, chutneys and relishes, and desserts. In addition to the author's own recipes developed for this book, she includes recipes from well-known chefs.
Margaret Leibenstein, a cookbook author, writer, and teacher, has lived, studied, shopped, and cooked in Italy, England, France, Greece, Israel, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, Japan, and Mexico. She is the author of "The Edible Mushroom," Fawcett/Ballantine and "The Carbohydrate Craver's Diet" (Houghton Mifflin, 1984) and resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts.