Sprout Garden: Indoor Grower's Guide to Gourmet Sprouts

Mark Mathew Braunstein

Book Publishing Company, 1999 - Gardening - 143 pages

Sprout Garden presents a comprehensive guide to the art and science of home sprouting. From aduki beans to wheat kernels, it explains the best methods and optimal conditions for growing and preparing the many varieties of fresh sprouts, and offers essential advice so that even beginners can succeed. With a generous helping of puns and subtle humor, this book entertains as it explains how to cultivate wholesome fresh food at home, the latest health research about broccoli sprouts and alfalfa, and mail order sources for sprouting equipment and seeds. Mark offers a collection of vegetarian recipes intended to tantalize the gourmet's palate not just with salads but also with entire dinners and delicious desserts. "Sprout Garden" provides an indispensable resource for every whole foods vegetarian kitchen.

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User Review  - JuliePeterson - LibraryThing

This book is useful and hysterical. I found myself reading entire sections aloud to whomever was lucky enough to be nearby. The section "A Mung Amoung Us." was super-funny. ah... Brendon got it at the library. I'm looking for a used copy..

Contents

• The Container: 12
• Air and Water: 14
• Seeds Grains and Beans: 16
• Metric Equivalents: 18
• How to Sprout: 19
• The JarTube Method: 20
• The Bag Method: 32
• The TrayPlate Method: 34
• The Towel Method: 39
• The Saucer Method: 41
• The Soil Method: 44
• Theres Madness to the Method: 53
• About Each Sprout: 55
• Seeds: 57
• Grains: 73
• Beans: 79
• Radicle Vegetarian Recipes: 87
• Choose Cook Chop Cheer: 88
• Sprout Salads: 94
• Sprout Salad Dressings: 96
• Sprout Sandwiches: 100
• Sprout Suppers: 112
• Sprout Sweets: 118
• Safeguards Against FoodBorne Illness: 124
• A Mung Among Us: 127
• Sprout Sources: 129
• Index: 135
• SproutataGlance Chart: 138

About the author

Mark M. Braunstein is one of the leading authorities on sprouting. He has been a guest speaker at whole life expos, vegetarian summerfests, animal rights conferences and college campuses. Mark is also the author of Radical Vegetarianism, A Dialectic of Diet and Ethic.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sprout Garden: Indoor Grower's Guide to Gourmet Sprouts
• Author: Mark Mathew Braunstein
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: Book Publishing Company, 1999
• ISBN: 1570670730, 9781570670732
• Length: 143 pages
• Subjects: Gardening / Container; Gardening / Vegetables