Root-to-Stalk Cooking The Art of Using the Whole Vegetable [A Cookbook]

A cookbook featuring more than 65 recipes that make use of the parts of vegetables that typically get thrown away, including stalks, tops, ribs, fronds, and stems, with creative tips for making the most of seasonal ingredients to stretch the kitchen dollar.

Make the Most of Your Produce!

Don’t discard those carrot tops, broccoli stalks, potato peels, and pea pods. The secret that creative restaurant chefs and thrifty great-grandmothers share is that these, and other common kitchen scraps, are both edible and wonderfully flavorful.

Root-to-Stalk Cooking provides savvy cooks with the inspiration, tips, and techniques to transform trimmings into delicious meals. Corn husks and cobs make for rich Corn-Pancetta Puddings in Corn Husk Baskets, watermelon rinds shine in a crisp and refreshing Thai Watermelon Salad, and velvety green leek tops star in Leek Greens Stir Fry with Salty Pork.

Featuring sixty-five recipes that celebrate the whole vegetable, Root-to-Stalk Cooking helps you get the most out of your seasonal ingredients. By using husks, roots, skins, cores, stems, seeds, and rinds to their full potential, you’ll discover a whole new world of flavors while reducing waste and saving money.

TARA DUGGAN is a staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle’s Food & Wine section and the author of three previous cookbooks, including The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee and The Working Cook. A graduate of the California Culinary Academy, she is the recipient of a James Beard Foundation Journalism Award. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Denver Post, The Chicago Tribune, and The Toronto Star. Tara, her husband, and their two daughters live in San Francisco and enjoy spending time on her family’s off-the-grid farm in Northern California, where she gets ideas for what to do with all kinds of kitchen scraps.

Introduction

1   Roots  
Beets • Turnips • Radishes • Carrots • Potatoes
2   Bulbs & Stems  
Asparagus • Celery • Fennel • Leeks
3   Leaves  
Cabbage • Chard • Kale • Herbs •
Romaine Lettuce
4   Flowers  
Artichokes • Squash Blossoms • Broccoli • Cauliflower
5   Seeds 
Corn • Fava Beans • Peas
6   Fruit  
Apples • Avocados • Butternut Squash • Citrus • Tomatoes • Watermelon
 
Recipes by Type  
Acknowledgments  
About the Author  
Index