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The Foster's Market Cookbook: Favorite Recipes for Morning, Noon, and Night [Hardcover]

Sara Foster , Sarah Belk King , James Baigrie , Martha Stewart
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Book Description

April 30, 2002
For more than a decade, Foster’s Markets have been cooking and baking foods made fresh each day from ingredients picked locally at the peak of flavor. Now Sara Foster shares more than two hundred delicious recipes, providing modern takes on favorite home-style classics.

The Foster’s Market Cookbook features old-fashioned ideas about how good food should taste and new-fashioned ideas about prep times and the use of high-quality prepared ingredients. Filled with eighty color photos, this is the perfect cookbook to refer to over and over again for everyday meals or for entertaining, whether it be for two or for twenty.

Before moving to Durham, North Carolina, Sara worked alongside Martha Stewart in the kitchen of Martha’s catering business. When she opened her own catering company, Sara kept her food simple yet soulful, trusting the complex flavors of seasonal ingredients. This same basic principle guides the daily offerings at Foster’s Markets in Durham and Chapel Hill. Each week the markets serve nearly a thousand customers hungrily searching out Sara’s innovative, new-style home cooking. And now food lovers everywhere will be able to prepare with ease sumptuous dishes such as Roasted Chicken, Sweet Potato, and Arugula Salad; Herb-Grilled Salmon with Fresh Tomato-Orange Chutney; and Risotto Cakes with Roasted Tomatoes and Foster’s Arugula Pesto. Also featured are a host of wonderful desserts, such as Lemon Chess Pie with Sour Cherries and Chocolate Espresso Layer Cake with Mocha Latte Frosting.

Featuring mouthwatering favorites from the market and dozens of helpful sidebars that discuss ingredients, techniques, and make-ahead tips, The Foster’s Market Cookbook provides all you need to know to make the most of every season’s finest offerings.

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Editorial Reviews

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Since 1990, Sara Foster has been delighting the patrons of her two North Carolina gourmet takeout food stores with refined yet unpretentious fare that reflects her Southern upbringing and years as a professional cook on the East Coast. The Foster's Market Cookbook, penned with food writer Sarah Belk King, collects dozens of Foster's most popular recipes, beloved for their use of high-quality seasonal ingredients and rich, imaginative flavor combinations. As with Ina Garten's Barefoot Contessa Cookbook and myriad tomes by Martha Stewart (for whom Foster worked in the 1980s), Foster's debut provides both advanced and fledgling home cooks with impeccably tasteful dinner-party menu ideas and creative weekday meals.

Starting the book as you might your morning, Foster offers tantalizing breakfast possibilities such as Sticky Orange-Coconut Pinwheels and traditional-with-a-twist brunch dishes such as Mushroom-Risotto Hash with Fried Eggs and Grilled Ham. Next come more than 15 soul-warming soups, stews, and chilies (Corn and Roasted Red Pepper Chowder is just one of many must-make entries); sandwiches and snacks; salads and sides; entrées; and desserts. Main-dish highlights include Chicken Breasts Stuffed with Prosciutto and Sun-Dried Tomatoes (they're so good and so easy to make!), Grilled Eggplant Parmesan with Fresh Mozzarella and Zesty Tomato Sauce, and Pan-Seared Sea Scallops with Tom Thumb Tomatoes and Foster's Pesto (a perfect quick spring meal). The desserts are divine, including chic confections such as Four-Layer Blueberry Gingerbread Cake with Mocha Cream, a collaboration with Durham pastry chef Kathy Edwards, as well as old-fashioned treats like strawberry shortcake and pecan pie (nicely jazzed with bourbon). Throughout, sidebars and tips on techniques give cooks additional opportunity to learn from Foster's fine food sensibility. For connoisseurs of simple yet sophisticated cuisine, The Foster's Market Cookbook truly titillates. --Rebecca Robinson

From Publishers Weekly

In the tradition of the Barefoot Contessa Cookbook, Foster has put together favorite recipes featured at her two Foster's Markets (where she prepares and sells seasonal dishes) in Durham and Chapel Hill, N.C. Much of the food is simple and depends on fresh, quality ingredients enhanced by herbs and spices for its success. Starting with a wide selection of muffins and breads, such as the moist Granny Foster's Banana Walnut Bread, the book covers a range of breakfast and brunch dishes before moving on to soups, stews, chilies and the more traditional sandwiches, spreads and snacks of a gourmet market store. The Provencal White Bean Dip is given an unusual twist with sun-dried tomatoes and capers, and the Curried Chicken Salad is paired with whole-grain or pumpernickel bread for a savory combination. The salads, sides and entrees such as the Mediterranean-inflected Sauteed Chicken Breast with Artichokes, Lemons and Capers or the Roast Leg of Lamb Stuffed with Italian White Beans and Spinach show influences from other cultures from Italy to Asia. Old-fashioned desserts like Chocolate Chip Cookies and Chocolate Pound Cake round out the book. Enhanced with photos and scattered sidebar tips, the book is well designed and user-friendly, making it a welcome addition for those who plan their meals with the seasons. (On sale Apr. 23)

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Random House; 1 edition (April 30, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0375505466
  • ISBN-13: 978-0375505461
  • Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 0.9 x 10.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #74,338 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great recipes and easy-to-read layout make this a winner September 28, 2002
Format:Hardcover
Sara Foster's "Foster's Market Cookbook" is a hands-down winner. She combines a comfortable manner with comfort food galore--usually comfort food with just enough of a twist to make it new and interesting. Granny Foster's Refrigerator Rolls (which keep for an amazing two weeks in the fridge if you want to put off baking them) are highly recommended!

In addition to featuring terrific, simple, delicious recipes, the layout of the book makes it a breeze to read. It's amazing to me how many cookbooks are actually sort of hard to follow when it comes to the directions, but this one isn't. The design is attractive and the font easy to read. Each recipe direction is numbered--a wonderful thing if you happen to look away and lose your place. For the most part, each recipe is complete on a single page and when this is not the case, the recipe is usually complete on the facing page. This makes following the recipes a breeze. This one is a keeper.

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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
As both a professional Chef & a faithful patron of Foster's Market, my expectations have been exceeded by The Foster's Market Cookbook.

Not only does the book seem to give away all of Sara's favorites- from her Tarragon Chicken Salad with Granny Smith Apples & Grapes (this might possibly be the BEST chicken salad i've had anywhere in the world), to the Roast Pork Tenderloin with Dried Cherries & Rosemary, to the ultimate cookie- The Chocolate Whopper- but she does so with refreshing ease. Where most "Celebrity Chef" cookbooks are filled with multi-task & complicated recipes, the ones in this cookbook are very simple- yet produce real food with real flavors that fit with today's real work schedules & culinary skill levels.

The Cookbook is the same as her Market- warm, informative & friendly. This is a book that i will cherish using for the rest of my life.

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An Excellent Casual Dining Cookbook. Yay! August 13, 2002
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Format:Hardcover
I recently received my copy of Foster's Market Cookbook and have already moved with lightening speed through a number of the recipes, and they are excellent! The recipes are not too complex, or fussy and at the same time each one is a great combination of fresh ingredients. The comfort food section of the book is alone worth the price. The Chicken Salad with a honey mustard mayonaise was a big hit, paired with a great orzo salad. My family is in love with the Risotto cakes. This is a great cook book for casual great-tasting food. It will be tough to find one cookbook with as many great recipes. Gotta go Cook!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent food!
This is one of my favorite cookbooks. Everything I've ever made has turned out well and gets rave reviews when I make it. It all started with the scones - which are awesome. Read more
Published 23 days ago by JJB
5.0 out of 5 stars WONDERFUL cookbook, with some caveats.
I bought this cookbook a few months ago and have been continually brought back to it to try more recipes. All of the dishes I have tried my husband and I have enjoyed thoroughly. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Melissa
5.0 out of 5 stars Foster's Market Cookbook
Foster's Market is a great cookbook. My copy was a gift from a friend, and with a recent visit of long-time friends who are "foodies" I decided to send it as a gift, and have... Read more
Published on September 30, 2010 by Norma E. Wagoner
5.0 out of 5 stars the foster's market cookbook
borrowed this book from the library many times..finally i just had to purchase
every single recipe i have made i have received rave reviews.... Read more
Published on June 9, 2010 by emmekay
4.0 out of 5 stars Delicious!
The recipes in this cookbook are delicious! I've tried several and have loved every one. Of course, they're so good because they're loaded with butter, sugar, and other rich... Read more
Published on September 15, 2009 by E. Christensen
4.0 out of 5 stars Sara Foster
Very good cookbook. Sara does a great job bringing easy to follow recipes with ingredients that everyone can find. I would recommend this to anyone. pd
Published on May 13, 2009 by Ms. Phyllis G. Davis
4.0 out of 5 stars Love these recipes!
Love the recipes in this book! The hummus is a family favorite...and I love that they are easy to "tweak" if I'm short on a particular ingredient, or if it calls for something I... Read more
Published on September 25, 2008 by J. Harwell
5.0 out of 5 stars Foster's Market From Home
Great cookbook! Every recipe I have tried has turned out perfectly and has afforded me rave reviews from my friends and family. Read more
Published on September 23, 2007 by G. Recipient
5.0 out of 5 stars Mouthwatering scones, heart-to-heart talks
I am not an objective reviewer of this cookbook, because sitting in Fosters Market nibbling scones and sipping coffee kept me sane for 5 years of graduate school at Duke. Read more
Published on June 8, 2007 by A. Hartley
5.0 out of 5 stars recreating college favorites
I lived right down the street from Foster's Market in Chapel Hill during college and just gave this cookbook to each of my roommates for graduation presents because we all love it... Read more
Published on June 2, 2007 by L. Brady
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