In recent years, the Hudson Valley has become a major center for local foods and agriculture, an East Coast version of the Napa Valley. An extension of that abundance, Laura Pensiero’s bustling restaurant, Gigi Trattoria in Rhinebeck, New York, serves the best food around, and her year-round farmer’s market, Gigi Market in Red Hook, New York, attracts both locals and visitors from New York City. A celebration of the food and people of the Hudson Valley-from artisans and farmers to local craftsmen-THE GIGI GOOD FOOD COOKBOOK shows how seasonal eating is possible even if you live in a true four-season climate. A risotto with striped radishes, peas, garlic chives, and Hudson Valley chèvre, for instance, embodies spring, while in summer a risotto with zucchini, tomatoes, and basil rules. There’s a gorgeous 8-page color insert for each season, to help emphasize this approach. While the cookbook focuses on eating healthfully, it will guide readers to a place where pleasure and health meet with 120 recipes such as: •Apple Butter Harvest Pork Chops •Peanut Beer-Battered Chicken Strips with Maple Peanut Sauce •Baked Mac ‘n’ Cheese with Cauliflower and Peas •Lasagna for Every Season •Mr. Mink’s Panzanella Salad with Fresh Herbs •Strawberry-Stuffed French Toast Pensiero shows that focusing on fresh, seasonal, cleanly cultivated food puts you on a positive-and lasting-path toward health and happiness. So whether you’re a part of the growing movement that embraces local eating and creating a sustainable lifestyle or just a lover of fine food, this cookbook will help you live the rhythm of the changing seasons and connect to the people you love over a shared meal.
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Honorable Mention, Publishers Weekly Best Food Books of 2009 (Publishers Weekly )
“People long for more flavor, better nutrition, and beauty on their dinner plates. Laura Pensiero delivers at Gigi Trattoria and she delivers in this book. And you don’t have to live in the Hudson Valley to reap the benefit of Hudson Valley Mediterranean.” (Amy Goldman, author of The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table and chair of the board of Seed Savers Exchange )
“a collection of about 150 recipes with a distinct voice—one of balanced eating, locally sourced foods and fuss-free, straightforward dishes that showcase seasonal ingredients, like the candy-like sweetness of a rustic onion tart in autumn.” (Albany Times Union )
“People long for more flavor, better nutrition, and beauty on their dinner plates. Laura Pensiero delivers at Gigi Trattoria and she delivers in this book. And you don’t have to live in the Hudson Valley to reap the benefit of Hudson Valley Mediterranean.” (Amy Goldman, author of The Heirloom Tomato: From Garden to Table and chair of the board of Seed Savers Exchange )
“a collection of about 150 recipes with a distinct voice—one of balanced eating, locally sourced foods and fuss-free, straightforward dishes that showcase seasonal ingredients, like the candy-like sweetness of a rustic onion tart in autumn.” (Albany Times Union )
About the Author
Laura Pensiero is the creator of Gigi Hudson Valley, a broad-based company that celebrates local New York farmers and their products through her restaurant, the influential Gigi Trattoria in Rhinebeck, New York; her cafÉ and store, Gigi Market in nearby Red Hook featuring Hudson Valley products; and her line of Gigi-branded products. A registered dietician, Pensiero has worked with some of the best health-care institutions in the world, including Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Strang-Cornell Cancer Prevention Center. She is also a partner in and chef for Just Salad, developing menus and recipes for a rapidly expanding chain of healthful fast-food eateries with locations in New York City and Hong Kong. Named one of five "amazingly gifted and giving food professionals" by O, The Oprah Magazine, Pensiero is the coauthor of The Strang Cancer Prevention Center Cookbook and has developed recipes for The Da Fiore Cookbook, among others. She has written for many magazines, including O, The Oprah Magazine, Prevention, and Today's Diet and Nutrition, and has contributed recipes to Real Simple, More, and Fitness. Her work has also been featured in Cooking Light and Chef Magazine. She is also a board member and educator for Healthy Children Healthy Futures, a national after-school child health program. Pensiero lives in Red Hook, New York.
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We stayed in Hudson Valley and stopped at Gigi's Marketplace and then at the restaurant. Since then we've cooked three recipes (so far!) that have been amazing!
Th pea soup is wonderful and we were thrown back to our vacation in Tuscany when we had the gnocchi with ragu. It was BEYOND exceptional. Simple, beautiful flavors with wonderful ingredients. This is how we all should cook. Your family will love it. Its also conveniently organized by season so you can buy the freshest ingredients and make these dishes during each season which is nothing short of genius.
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As the owner of an extremely popular Italian restaurant in New York's Hudson Valley and a registered dietitian, Laura Pensiero's emphasis on healthy, delicious food really shines in this book. Her recipes are very clear and easy to follow and taste almost as good as the food at Gigi's restaurant. The book is organized by season and emphasizes using food from local farmer's markets wherever possible, for the freshest taste.
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Entertaining Read & Good Eats!,
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I received this cookbook as a Christmas gift from my daughter and haven't put it down since. I've read it cover to cover and am anxiously looking forward to having some time to actually try some of the recipes. The recipes are separated out by season (if you are a member of a CSA, you'll really appreciate this!) and she gives plenty of suggestions for changing up the recipe. Additionally, the author gives you nutritional information (not calories and fat but what's good (or not so in some cases) and cost ranges, helpful to a family looking to eat healthy AND affordably. The constant emphasis on LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL may annoy you if you don't have access to locally grown produce or a farmer's market and some of the ingredients are more high brow than some areas of the country might expect in their local markets. Having said that, I still thoroughly enjoyed simply reading the cookbook!
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