Boston Homegrown Cookbook: Local Food, Local Restaurants, Local Recipes (Homegrown Cookbooks) - Hardcover

Leigh Belanger is a Boston-based food writer and the program director at Chefs Collaborative, a national network of chefs and culinary professionals dedicated to improving the food system through education and community-building. She is working on her master’s degree in gastronomy from Boston University and is the mother of a very enthusiastic young eater.

Margaret Belanger is a wedding, family, and food photographer based out of Boston. After working on this book, she realized her kitchen is woefully inadequate, as are her cooking skills. http://www.megbelanger.blogspot.com/

Good food means locally grown food. The Boston Homegrown Cookbook: Local Food, Local Restaurants, Local Recipes celebrates the best homegrown food in and around the Boston area, profiling 28 restaurants that are working with local farmers to bring the freshest locally grown, sustainable foods to their menus. Inside you ll find more than 50 delicious recipes from 28 top restaurants and chefs like Jason Bond of Bondir, Jody Adams of Rialto, Barry Maiden of Hungry Mother, Steve Johnson of Rendezvous, Jamie Bissonnette of Coppa, and more. The stories and photos of these farmers and chefs will inspire an appreciation for the hard work that goes into creating local, seasonal dishes and sampling these recipes made with incredibly fresh ingredients will make you a local food devotee for life.

606 Congress, Chef Rich Garcia

Bondir, Chef Jason Bond

Clover Food Lab, Chef Rolando Rebledo

Cuisine en Locale, Chef JJ Gonson

Eat Boston, Chef Will Gilson

Erbaluce, Chef Charles Draghi

Hamersley s Bistro, Chef Gordon Hamersley

Henrietta s Table, Chef Peter Davis

Hungry Mother, Chef Barry Maiden

L Espalier, CEO Frank McClelland

Lineage and Island Creek Oyster Bar, Chef Jeremy Sewall and Pastry Chef Lisa Sewall

Lumiere, Chef Michael Leviton

Meritage, Boston Harbor Hotel, Chef Daniel Bruce

Nourish, Owner Karen Masterson

Oleana, Chef Ana Sortun

Parsons Table, Chef Chris Parsons

Redd s in Rozzie, Chef Charlie Redd

Rendezvous, Chef Steve Johnson

Rialto, Chef Jody Adams

Russell House Tavern, Chef Michael Scelfo

Summer Shack, Chef Jasper White

Tastings Wine Bar and Bistro, Chef Matt Maue

Tavolo, Chef Nuno Alves

Ten Tables, Chef Krista Kranyak

The Gallows, Chef Seth Morrison

Toro and Coppa, Chef Jamie Bissonnette

Tosca, Chef Kevin Long

TW Food, Chef Tim Wiechmann

Restaurants all over the Boston area try to boast at least one of these adjectives, but to the farmers and chefs profiled here, these are more than just buzzwords. They are a way of life. These farmers rise before the roosters to bring fresh produce, meats, and cheeses to area farmers markets. These chefs kick off the day with an early trip to the market and wrap it up in the wee hours of the night after feeding hundreds of appreciative diners.

In The Boston Homegrown Cookbook, you ll find the stories behind some of Boston s most buzz-worthy chefs, including Jason Bond of Bondir, Jody Adams of Rialto, Barry Maiden of Hungry Mother, Steve Johnson of Rendezvous, and Jamie Bissonnette of Coppa. The chefs featured here work with area farmers to bring the freshest locally grown, sustainable foods to their menus. With more than 50 outstanding recipes from these dedicated chefs and farmers, we hope you ll enjoy bringing a little homegrown food into your own kitchen.