Outstanding in the Field: A Farm to Table Cookbook

Denevan, Jim; Stets, Marah

ISBN 10: 0307381994 / ISBN 13: 9780307381996

Published by Clarkson Potter, 2008

About this Item

SIGNED BY JIM DENEVAN on the title page, first edition and first printing, hardcover and dust jacket in excellent, unmarked, near-pristine condition (slight handling). The DJ is protected by a new, clear, removeable cover. 256 pages, with color photographs of some finished dishes. [2.4 lbs].

Seller Inventory # 078705

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Outstanding in the Field: A Farm to Table Cookbook
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307381994
• ISBN 13: 9780307381996
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Cookbooks/ cook books/ cookery/ recipes

About this title

Synopsis

Instead of bringing food to guests in a traditional restaurant setting, Jim Denevan brings diners to their food, creating what Alice Waters has called “the restaurant I always imagined.” His innovative organization, Outstanding in the Field, sets up dinner tables in fields, ranches, dairies, vineyards, and community gardens across the country for alfresco meals that truly reconnect us with the land and people that produce our food.

In Outstanding in the Field, Denevan presents a cookbook full of seasonally inspired dishes from his farm-fresh dinners, sharing more than one hundred recipes with home cooks and food lovers everywhere. Celebrating local ingredients at their height of freshness, favorites include Haricot Vert and Early Girl Tomato Salad with Summer Savory; Burrata Cheese with Nectarines, Māche, and Hazelnuts; Sea Scallops with Sugar Snap Peas and Chervil; Pure Maple Syrup–Braised Short Ribs; Green Tomato Marmalade; and Upside-Down Fresh Fig Cake. All of the recipes present opportunities to use the most flavorful produce, meats, and cheeses in the area where you live—and suggestions for substitutions when necessary.

America’s appetite for organic and local food has never been stronger and there is no better guide to this growing movement than Jim Denevan. With inspiring recipes, beautiful photographs throughout of farms and food across the country, and information on finding local ingredients and helping Community Supported Agriculture and community gardens, Outstanding in the Field is a cookbook that celebrates the pleasures of raising, preparing, and enjoying good food.

About the Author

JIM DENEVAN, a chef and renowned land artist, is the founder of Outstanding in the Field, an organization that sets up outdoor dinners wherever food is grown. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.

MARAH STETS is a food writer and editor. She lives near Washington, D.C., with her husband and their three children.