Broccoli and Other Love Stories: Notes and recipes from an always curious, often hungry kitchen gardener

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Broccoli and Other Love Stories is a study and celebration of 55 food plants, arranged by plant family and chosen because the author grows, cooks, and eats them regularly, with accessibility front of mind (many being suitable for container gardens for urban cooks, and most being available at grocers in temperate regions around the world) but also including a few curiosities because that is what makes life interesting.

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Paulette Whitney lives with her family on a pocket of land in the foothills of Kunanyi (Mount Wellington), not far south of Nipaluna (Hobart). With her husband Matt, she grows seedlings, vegetables and seed crops. They make pickles and preserves and sell their harvest at Salamanca Market. Through their work they have nurtured relationships with herbalists, gardeners, chefs and botanists who teach them every time they talk. They eat well. Not a plant passes through their hands untasted, they have the freedom of the outdoors, and they experience the world through their garden. Paulette looks forward to a bite of silverbeet as much as she relishes a lobster. She can't abide wasting food, and she knows how to look for a dozen ways to use the produce that finds its way into her kitchen.