title: Eating Local: The Cookbook Inspired by America's Farmers
author: Sur La Table
description: "Like most Sur La Table books, it's a feast for the eyes: lushly photographed, and somehow both elegant and earthy. Fortunately, Eating Local cooks as good as it looks." --NPR<br /><br />"This newest collection from Sur La Table (The Art and Soul of Baking; Things Cooks Love) is perfect for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) subscribers and farmers' market fans looking for ideas on how to use their produce. James Beard Award-winning food writer Fletcher profiles ten American farms with CSA programs. Since the book focuses on fresh, seasonal produce, recipes are organized by primary ingredient rather than course." --Library Journal<br /><br />"James Beard Award-winning writer Janet Fletcher is garnering considerable buzz for her newest cookbook, "Eating Local: The Cookbook Inspired by America's Farmers", with its glorious photographs and 150 tempting recipes. Stories and images from 10 small family farms are interspersed among recipes" --Mercury News
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  > NORDIC  
  > COOKBOOK
  
  > Dear Reader,
  
  > In my youth, I spent a lot of time with my grandparents, who, although
  > native Minnesotans, ultimately settled in South Carolina (theirs was
  > probably the only home in the state where a curling stone decorated the den
  > and Scandinavian plates graced the walls). Still, they clung to the Nordic
  > culinary traditions they had grown up with. We always had wild game, fish,
  > and the freshest of local vegetables. (“Eat your rabbit food!” Grandpa would
  > insist. “I’d rather pay grocery bills than doctor bills.”) And we always, no
  > exceptions, sat down around the formal dining table to enjoy our meals
  > together.
  
  > After spending my twenties in southern California (learning to cook Chinese,
  > Indian, and Mexican food like a pro), I landed in the Pacific Northwest—a
  > place my grandparents would’ve loved, with its still-vibrant Scandinavian-
  > American population, its cold waters, its bountiful forests. It was coming
  >