Cooking With the Seasons: A Year in My Kitchen

Acclaimed chef Monique Hooker learned early on how to use seasonal, locally grown ingredients to create simple meals that celebrate the best of what each season has to offer. Drawing on her own experience growing up on a seventeenth-century family farm in France, Chef Hooker takes the home cook through the year, month-by-month, offering more than 200 original recipes that dazzle the senses by emphasizing seasonal distinctions of taste, texture and color. 30 photos.

Monique Jamet Hooker opened her own cooking school, Monique's French Cuisine. She has also taught at the Culinary School of Kendall College, the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago, and the Cooking Academy of Chicago.