Fresh from the Farm: A year of recipes and stories - Hardcover

Ever want to quit your job, move to the country and start a farm stand? Susie Middleton, former editor of Fine Cooking magazine, did. Fresh from the Farm is partly the chronicle of an eat-local startup and partly a farm cookbook, liberally strewn with sunlit snapshots of chickens and garden beds in full production. And because Middleton is a flavor fanatic as well as a cook and farmer, her recipes are memorable even if you don't get to cook with still-warm eggs, or just-picked tomatoes blushing from the vine. -- recommended by T. Susan Chang, food writer --NPR "Witty, engaging prose draws the reader in and 125 simple recipes entice you to get cooking by exploring Middleton's homegrown suggestions." Publisher's Weekly --Publisher's Weekly "Fresh From the Farm: A Year of Recipes and Stories," which includes stories and photos of farm life and 121 recipes....You might call it a complete recipe book for the good life." Zester Daily --Zester Daily "The Martha's Vineyard resident and farmstand owner combines her trademark, deeply flavored recipes with anecdotes of farm life. The book makes a fine companion for those long winter nights spent browsing through seed catalogs." --Boston Globe ..".a beautiful cookbook, featuring 125 recipes along with reflections on what it's like to live a simpler, humbler life and the satisfaction to be had running a farmstand, selling vegetables and eggs directly to the people who will eat them." The Oregonian --The Oregonian

This is the engaging story of one woman's journey as she sought a simpler life on a farm. It features over 150 photos featuring the life of the farm bring both food and farm alive. This cookbook of 125 accessible, simple, delicious recipes from the Queen of Fresh, Susie Middleton, goes beyond traditional 'fresh' cookbooks. What distinguishes this book is the engaging story of one woman's journey as she sought a simpler life, bought a farm on a rural island and started planting and growing vegetables in the hopes of doing something she loves (growing and cooking food) and finding a satisfying life at the same time. Susie's story is real, just like her food, but Susie isn't the star of this book. It's really about the vegetables and how they shaped her life around growing and harvesting them and how she honours them in the kitchen. Susie's recipes highlight these vegetables but aren't necessarily vegetarian, though they are healthy, fresh and simple. The visuals are as equally engaging as the text. 35 finished dish photos and 120 lifestyle photos featuring the life of the farm bring both food and farm alive.