Minnesota's Bounty: The Farmers Market Cookbook

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The moment you step into a farmers market you are enveloped in a swirl of colors, aromas, and soundsbrilliant orange squash, vibrant green beans, glossy eggplant, crimson crab apples, the spicy bouquet of hot and sweet peppers, ripe muskmelons. Tables are bursting with sunflowers, honey, and eggs. To your right, freshly fried doughnuts and steaming coffee; to your left, acoustic guitar and beautiful flowers. But the local market is not just a place to immerse the sensesit is where communities come together and engage in an exchange as old as civilization.

Minnesotas Bounty is a users guide to shopping and cooking from your local farmers market, and it applies a practical, easy approach to creating a truly seasonal kitchen. Organized alphabetically by type of food, it encourages readers to scrap predetermined recipes and forget the long lists. Instead, shop with an eye for what looks best and what you are hungry for. With more than twenty-five years of firsthand experience and a deep knowledge of Minnesota farmers markets, seasoned cook and food writer Beth Dooley has suggestions and recipes that inspire simple, modern, and healthy meals following an ingredients-first philosophy, helping readers to be more confident and spontaneous both at the market and in the kitchen.

Including a fascinating history of Minnesota farmers marketswith particular focus on the downtown St. Paul and Minneapolis marketsDooley presents an extraordinary introduction to our markets and the regions sustainably grown fresh foods. From a warming Coconut Curry Winter Squash Soup and Heartland Brisket to a summers meal of Minted Double Pea Soup, Lamb Burgers with Tzatziki, and Blueberry Lemon Ginger Sorbet, the guiding tenet of Minnesotas Bounty is splendidly uncomplicated: take this book to the market, buy the markets best offerings that day, then come home, cook, and enjoy.

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"Beth Dooley has written much more than a cookbook. This valuable resource and guide to Minnesotas farmers markets is sure to inspire and nourish you with connection to your food, your farmers, and Minnesotas rich sustainable-agriculture tradition." Terry Walters, author of Clean Food

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Beths love for farmers markets and delicious food go hand in hand. She will inspire you to shop the markets in the Heartland and get into your kitchen to cook scrumptious meals that nourish bodies and souls.
"Brenda Langton, author of The Spoonriver Cookbook

Author Bio

Beth Dooley has covered the local food scene in the Northern Heartland for more than twenty-five years. Author of The Northern Heartland Kitchen and coauthor with Lucia Watson of Savoring the Seasons of the Northern Heartland (both published by Minnesota), Beth writes regularly for Mpls. St. Paul magazine, the Minneapolis Star Tribunes Taste section, Edible Twin Cities, and the Mix. She teaches cooking at the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum and Cooks of Crocus Hill and serves on the Homegrown Minneapolis Food Council.