For crafty green types who want to master the fundamentals of a scratch pantry and have graduated from simple weekend jam and baking activities, this book offers a wide variety of recipes and blueprints for artisanal food projects. Forty projects with accompanying recipes appeal to a range of skill levels and palates. D.I.Y. Delicious goes beyond pickling and preserving into fermenting, culturing cheese, and brewing sodas and tonics. A total of 75 recipes and more than 50 step-by-step, color photographs lead the way to outfitting a scratch pantry that uses fewer ingredients to make delicious staples at a much lower cost.
Vanessa Barrington is a self-taught cook who is inspired by the fresh, locally grown produce available in farmers' markets and backyards in her Oakland, CA. neighborhood, as well as the vibrant community of picklers, jammers, urban farmers, and DIY'ers in her community.
She hopes DIY Delicious will encourage and empower readers to take back their kitchens by incorporating the basics of daily food preparation into their lives. By offering recipes for everything from ketchup, to pickles, to sauerkraut, to simple cheeses, as well as ideas and seasonal suggestions for incorporating the basics into easy, everyday meals, she hopes to inspire a new way of eating that is economical, eco-friendly, healthy, and delicious.
She is the co-author of the book, Heirloom Beans with Steve Sando of Rancho Gordo
