Table Of ContentINTRODUCTION What's Doing Down on the Farm? HEARTY FARM BREAKFASTS: WARM STARTS ON A COLD MORNING Just What is Organic Farming? COFFEE BREAK: SNACKS TO KEEP THE ENERGY UP Maytag Blue Bill Krome and the Florida Avocado WARMING SOUPS: A BIG POT OF SOUP The Indochinese Farm Project A Jar'a Jelly or a Cold Beer The Carpenters of Grady, Arkansas The Herbfarm FLAVORFUL MEAT DISHES: MEATS, THE CHOICEST OF THE CHOICE Mike Mohr and His Hogs The Kirschenmann Family Farm The Artichoke Grower of Castroville FOWL AND FISH: POULTRY IN EVERY POT AND A SMALL KETTLE OF FISH Do-Si-Do and Promenade Home The Christopher Ranch The Dufners Do It Differently Aquaculture FRESH VEGETABLES, BEANS, AND GRAINS: A HEAPING BOUNTY OF VEGETABLES AND GRAINS Seattle's Pike Place Market The World's Sweetest Carrots Biodynamic Farming Those Lustrous Winter Greens Polish Up Those Fruits and Vegetables There's Gold in the Hills Lundberg Rice A Farmer at Heart The Greenmarkets of New York City GARDEN SALADS: FRESH SALADS FROM THE FARMHOUSE GARDEN The Seed Savers' Exchange "Old Farmer" Michaels A Slippery Harvest Star Route Greens Solviva on Martha's Vineyard A FULL LARDER: PRESERVING THE ESSENCE: A FARMHOUSE LARDER Rosey's the Name, Produce Is the Game An Auction in Amish Country Hazelnuts by Any Other Name CRUSTY BREADS: BUTTERY BUNS AND BREADS If It's Idaho, It Must Be Potatoes COOKIES AND CAKES: COOKIES, CAKES, AND A COUPLE OF CANDIES Pete Yamamoto and His Almonds The Best Kind of Molasses What Are Those Berries Doing Down South? The Farmer Prophet MILE-HIGH PIES: PIES, PIES, PIES Cranberries An Education in Blueberries The Pavich Grape Story FRUITS, DESSERT: A DESSERT ASSORTMENT Oh, Those Flavorful Apples BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
SynopsisNothing evokes comfort, warmth, and mouth-watering hospitality like the dishes prepared by people who actually grow the food. From Susan Herrmann Loomis, author of The French Farmhouse Cookbook, The Italian Farmhouse Cookbook, The Great American Seafood Cookbook, and Clambakes & Fish Fries, Farmhouse Cookbook is the result of a 20,000-mile trek across rural America in search of the soul of the family farm. Passionate in her quest to taste the freshest corn, understand the basics of cattle ranching, and find out just how an artichoke grows, the author contacted legions of farmers who generously shared their time, their knowledge, their homes, and their recipes. Although Farmhouse Cookbook includes the best pot roast, meat loaf, and stew you're ever likely to encounter, it goes well beyond the expected meat-and-potatoes fare. Here is Chew Chang's Chicken and Mustard Green Soup, Lentil Salad with Smoked Turkey and Tarragon, Pork Loin with Coriander and Garlic Crust, a Basque Fourteen-Hour Leg of Lamb, Lemony Herbed Chicken Wings, Nate Pennell's Mulligan Stew with Blueberry Dumplings, Amish Corn Pudding, and Mary Navarette's Garlicky Enchiladas, from the Christopher Farm in Gilroy, California, the garlic capital of the world. Plus, extraordinary baking-Hot Pepper Corn Bread, Funny Cake, Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies, Rhubarb Crunch, Sour Cherry Crumb Pie, and Best Ever Chocolate Cake. With profiles of farms and farmers, tips, lore, and an almond to zucchini lexicon, Farmhouse Cookbook is as irresistible as the ring of the dinner bell over the fields. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club's HomeStyle Books and Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service. 197,000 copies in print., Nothing evokes comfort, warmth, and mouth-watering hospitality like the dishes prepared by people who actually grow the food. From Susan Herrmann Loomis, author of The French Farmhouse Cookbook , The Italian Farmhouse Cookbook , The Great American Seafood Cookbook , and Clambakes & Fish Fries , Farmhouse Cookbook is the result of a 20,000-mile trek across rural America in search of the soul of the family farm. Passionate in her quest to taste the freshest corn, understand the basics of cattle ranching, and find out just how an artichoke grows, the author contacted legions of farmers who generously shared their time, their knowledge, their homes, and their recipes. Although Farmhouse Cookbook includes the best pot roast, meat loaf, and stew you're ever likely to encounter, it goes well beyond the expected meat-and-potatoes fare. Here is Chew Chang's Chicken and Mustard Green Soup, Lentil Salad with Smoked Turkey and Tarragon, Pork Loin with Coriander and Garlic Crust, a Basque Fourteen-Hour Leg of Lamb, Lemony Herbed Chicken Wings, Nate Pennell's Mulligan Stew with Blueberry Dumplings, Amish Corn Pudding, and Mary Navarette's Garlicky Enchiladas, from the Christopher Farm in Gilroy, California, the garlic capital of the world. Plus, extraordinary baking-Hot Pepper Corn Bread, Funny Cake, Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies, Rhubarb Crunch, Sour Cherry Crumb Pie, and Best Ever Chocolate Cake. With profiles of farms and farmers, tips, lore, and an almond to zucchini lexicon, Farmhouse Cookbook is as irresistible as the ring of the dinner bell over the fields. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club's HomeStyle Books and Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service. 197,000 copies in print., Nothing evokes comfort, warmth, and mouth-watering hospitality like the dishes prepared by people who actually grow the food. From Susan Herrmann Loomis, author of "The French Farmhouse Cookbook," "The Italian Farmhouse Cookbook," "The Great American Seafood Cookbook," and "Clambakes & Fish Fries," "Farmhouse Cookbook" is the result of a 20,000-mile trek across rural America in search of the soul of the family farm. Passionate in her quest to taste the freshest corn, understand the basics of cattle ranching, and find out just how an artichoke grows, the author contacted legions of farmers who generously shared their time, their knowledge, their homes, and their recipes. Although "Farmhouse Cookbook" includes the best pot roast, meat loaf, and stew you're ever likely to encounter, it goes well beyond the expected meat-and-potatoes fare. Here is Chew Chang's Chicken and Mustard Green Soup, Lentil Salad with Smoked Turkey and Tarragon, Pork Loin with Coriander and Garlic Crust, a Basque Fourteen-Hour Leg of Lamb, Lemony Herbed Chicken Wings, Nate Pennell's Mulligan Stew with Blueberry Dumplings, Amish Corn Pudding, and Mary Navarette's Garlicky Enchiladas, from the Christopher Farm in Gilroy, California, the garlic capital of the world. Plus, extraordinary baking-Hot Pepper Corn Bread, Funny Cake, Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies, Rhubarb Crunch, Sour Cherry Crumb Pie, and Best Ever Chocolate Cake. With profiles of farms and farmers, tips, lore, and an almond to zucchini lexicon, "Farmhouse Cookbook" is as irresistible as the ring of the dinner bell over the fields. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club's HomeStyle Books and Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service. 197,000 copies in print.