Customer Reviews

The Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook: Local Food, Local Restaurants, Local Recipes (Homegrown Cookbooks)

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Not so much a recipe book-as a source guide. Reminding me of all the wonderful places in Minnesota that serve local food cooked just the right way! Birchwood Cafe is the best! They catered our wedding on two days notice!!:) The local movement and Farmer's Markets in St. Paul are short, but absolutely breathtaking. It's great to know that so many restaurants join in with our commitment for wonderful food and a sustainable future.

This book is a luscious tome exploring the links between sustainable farming, restaurants, and recipes in Minnesota. It is organized by region -- North Shore, Pine and Lake Country, Red River Valley, Minnesota River Valley, Bluff Country, and the Twin Cities Area -- and then features specific restaurants, their links to specific farms and then offers up several recipes from each restaurant. It is part of a larger project sponsored by Renewing the Countryside ([...]) and the book has a web site with excerpts if you want to know more ([...]).

The first edition cover was almost an exact duplication of the book mentioned in the above review and, miraculously, the second edition has a new cover (the one you see at the top of this page). However, the content of both books are very different in scope and intent. I suspect that a lazy graphic designer's head is now on the chopping block.

If you want a coffee table cookbook exploring sustainability. This book is for you.

All of the recipes in this cookbook look amazing. I hope to be able to create all of them but it might take a while! It makes you appreciate the great places in your own state.

Interesting read. Places you have eaten at and loved and other you may have only wanted to visit.