Customer Reviews

Earth to Table: Seasonal Recipes from an Organic Farm

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Oh, just another green, organic blah blah? Not so. This is the seasonal cook book for the rest of us. Refreshingly, it is not out of California with its endless supplies of the best produce, but out of Canada, where there actually is a Winter. For us in Minnesota a not unimportant detail.

It is helpful if you know your way around the kitchen a little bit. This is not a basic cookbook, but it has new recipes that are doable at home and come out delicious. Ingredients are easy to find in the store, the farmer's market or possibly in your own garden. One walks away from the table satisfied and feeling good about the food one just ate. Pizza with squash, pancetta and sage a smash hit! So are the pan roasted mushrooms, a revelation! Enjoy cooking and baking your way through the seasons.

I admit that I'm not one to "read" a cookbook. I'll glance and thumb, and then it goes on the shelf in the cupboard until I need it. This book? Well, I read it, I talked about it, I was encouraged to try a few recipes, and then I read it again. Right now, it is on the counter, right by my organic blueberries from my CSA. (I'm making the blueberry cake again.) Chef Crump took me where I needed to go to solidify my "elitism". I demand good, fresh, whole food, and I pay for it (sometimes dearly), and among my friends, I'm a kook. But I'd rather go without some expensive coffee to pay for better food from my CSA, and I feel great helping farmers who care about the final product. It's all about choices, as Crump so succinctly points out. This cookbook is a keeper. The recipes are seasonal, easy, and delicious. It's earned its place on the counter, not in the cupboard.

Beautiful photos and recipes, but be wary of all the baked recipes. The Milk and Honey bread recipe, as you will see in the discussion thread below, has some errors. The oatmeal bread could also use a few tweaks. This book is not good for beginners.

Childhood memories brought back to life. Wonderful pictures and great recipes are presented in this well-done with love book!

This book is beautifully presented, and it also has recipes that are just complex enough to be challenging but not so much that you don't feel like doing it. Maybe a little daunting for a complete beginner, but maybe not if you have some patience!

Each recipe is a little bit special and has its own particular twist that you might not have considered on your own. So far I made the steak with three dipping sauces and the shrimp served with a reduced vinegar, butter and herb sauce. Both delicious. It makes good reading too--great to read the stories of various farmers and local producers of the food they use.

this is one of my favorite books to read and re-read, the recipes are delicious and the stories in the book are really interesting

This book is great to use as a step by step guide for eating in season at the local level. I also enjoyed the stories which personalize you to the author.

Earth to Table is much more than a cookbook; it covers a wide range of organic, "slow food" topics, delicious and unique recipes that use all-organic ingredients and features several Chief profiles.

A sample of the recipes inside:

Scrambled Eggs with Chives and Caviar

Pesto

Saffron Rice

Rhubarb Fool

Maple Shoofly Pie

New Potatoes Salad with Green Beans and Shallots

Grilled Corn on the Cob with Chilies and Cheese

French Vanilla Ice Cream...

This securely bound, hardcover cookbook is just the thing for cooks who are very selective and prefer to use organic foods; it is also a very functional cookbook for those of us who are non-organic cooks and food consumers. Each of the seasonal recipe sections is prefaced with an introduction that talks about the foods available during that particular season; the flavorful and imaginative recipes are easy to understand and easy to follow with a clear layout that makes this a great cookbook for beginners, right on up to experienced cooks.

I love trying new recipes and this cookbook is fun. , well written and the food looks good. My family loved the apple muffins.Has made me an organic food addict

Beautiful, coffee table quality book that has gourmet recipes from an organic back to earth standpoint. This is the second I bought. The first was for me, this is for a gift.