Oriental Vegetables: The Complete Guide for the Gardening CookIncreasingly, chefs today both professional and amateur are emphasizing fresh, seasonal ingredients, locally and organically grown. Now, in the revised edition of the book Alice Waters of Chez Panisse called indispensable, Joy Larcom presents abundant information about crops that are full of flavor, highly nutritious and easy to grow. She describes over seventy exotic vegetables that can be cultivated regardless of climate, soil type or garden size. Here are hardy leafy mustards, komatsuna, Chinese yams and cabbage, lablab beans, pak choi, the climbing spinach basella, gourds, luffas and many more. For this edition, Larkcom has added new varieties and taken out those which are no longer available. She's updated information on such topics as pest and disease control; and added to the section that offers over 50 recipes for making delicious salads (Chinese Hot Salad), salad dressings (Lemon and Green Onion Dressing), soups (Basic Western Style Greens Soup), pickles (Pickled Mushroom Stems), and other dishes using the vegetables featured in the first section (Azuki Bean Risotto with Watercress and Grilled Tofu, Creamy Artichoke Soup, Duck with Mustard Leaves and Pasta, etc.). The helpful appendices include a glossary of gardening terms, a season/month conversion chart, a growing information chart, plant names, gardening organizations and seed suppliers in the U.S. |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictLarkcom, a British-based gardener and author of The Salad Garden ( LJ 5/1/84), presents a comprehensive volume on Chinese and Japanese vegetables. Over 100 varieties are listed with information on ... Read full review
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| Title | Oriental Vegetables: The Complete Guide for the Gardening Cook |
| Author | Joy Larkcom |
| Edition | illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | Kodansha America, 2008 |
| ISBN | 1568363702, 9781568363707 |
| Length | 232 pages |
| Subjects | › › Cooking / Regional & Ethnic / Chinese Cooking / Regional & Ethnic / Japanese Cooking / Specific Ingredients / Vegetables |
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