The Kitchen Gardener's Companion: An A-Z Encyclopedia for Using the Food That You Grow

Want to do wonders with that harvest from your garden...or the local market? This one-stop guide for the cook, the gardener and the multi-tasking "kitchen gardener" covers everything you need to know about canning, pickling, freezing, preserving, storing and cooking your bounty of fruits and vegetables.

Food author and columnist Pat Katz has taken a storehouse of harvesting and storage wisdom, once passed down through the generations, and gathered it all in this one comprehensive A-Z volume. Included are dozens of helpful and handy techniques and a collection of essential, time-tested recipes.

Whether you are a rural or urban gardener, or someone with access to a good greengrocer or farmer's market, you shouldn't be without this guide that keeps indispensible food knowledge at your fingertips.

Pat Katz, avid gardener and cook, spent her early years on a Nevada homestead where her passion for all-natural foods began. She is the author of The Craft of the Country Cook and wrote Countryside Journal's food column for over a decade.