American Harvest: Regional Recipes for the Vegetarian Kitchen [Paperback]

Nava Atlas (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

When arriving in North America, Europeans found a cornucopia of "new" vegetables: corn, potatoes, wild rice, squash, pumpkin and many other species that inventive cooks incorporated into the daily diet. Atlas has compiled 100 such dishes in a book that combines the witty sayings and historical tidbits of her earlier Vegetariana with solid examples of regional cooking. They include myriad muffins and a Shaker herb bread, Pennsylvania Dutch corn and cabbage soup, Harvard beets and several succotash dishes. Desserts are especially mouthwatering, with a Boston cranberry pie that vies with Southern sweet-potato pie and a New Orleans bread pudding with whiskey sauce. The book is rounded out by 27 menu suggestions.
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Product Details

• Paperback: 191 pages
• Publisher: Book Pub Co; 2nd edition (October 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963024302
• ISBN-13: 978-0963024305
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,335,164 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Nava Atlas is the author and illustrator of many books on vegetarian cooking, most recently Vegan Express, Vegan Soups and Hearty Stews for All Seasons, The Vegetarian Family Cookbook, and The Vegetarian 5-Ingredient Gourmet. The Vegan Holiday Kitchen will be published in the fall of 2011, and a book on leafy greens will be on the shelves in the spring of 2012.

In addition to cookbooks, Nava also produces visual books on family themes, humor, and women's issues, including The Literary Ladies' Guide to the Writing Life (2011), exploring first-person narratives on the writing lives of twelve classic women authors, and commenting on the universal relevance of their experiences to all women who love to write. Secret Recipes for the Modern Wife (2009) is a satiric look at contemporary marriage and motherhood through the lens of a faux 1950s cookbook.

Nava is also an active fine artist specializing in limited edition artist's books and text-driven objects. Her work is shown and collected by museums and universities across the U.S. You can see her work at navaatlasart.com. Her home is in the Hudson Valley region of New York State, where she lives with her husband and two sons.