Cooking Fresh from the Mid-Atlantic: Tantalizing Recipes, Celebrated Chefs, and Conversations on the Essential Nature of Small-Scale Organic Farming (Signed)

More than 130 recipes from the region¬?s 27 best chefs, handpicked for their commitment to the quality and flavor that small-scale, local farms have to offer.

As partner and cofounder of Eating Fresh Publications, Fran McManus brings 20 years' experience in graphic design and marketing for natural- and organic-food enterprises. She served as marketing representative for a Princeton-based nonprofit natural foods store, where she spearheaded a number of consumer-education and outreach programs on subjects ranging from organic agriculture to bovine growth hormone to genetic diversity in food crops to organic gardening. She is also editor of "Eating Fresh from the Organic Garden State" (NOFA-NJ, 1998).

Wendy Rickard, Eating Fresh Publications partner and cofounder, brings more than 20 years' experience in marketing, publishing, and communications. She is president of The Rickard Group, Inc., a marketing and communications firm with national accounts in the areas of technology, higher education, and holistic health. In 1994, Wendy was recognized by BusinessWeek magazine as "a pioneer on the digital frontier" for her work in electronic media. She is editor of the award-winning OntheInternet magazine for the Internet Society and its electronic counterpart, e-OTI.