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Plant, grow, and harvest the vegetables of a century ago—and serve them up with modern flair! In The Edible Heirloom Vegetable Garden , edible landscape guru Rosalind Creasy presents a beautifully illustrated guide to growing heirloom vegetables. Readers can learn the basics of planting, caring for, and preparing traditional favorites, including:Saving and storing seeds from year-to-yearHow to make everything from tomatoes and squash to kale and beans thriveRecipes for soups, main dishes, and sides Beautiful color photos and a tour of American heirloom gardens provide inspiration for aspiring gardeners. With a little bit of yard space and the right guidance, anyone can join the «garden-to-table» movement, and The Edible Heirloom Vegetable Garden will be their go-to resource.

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Rosalind Creasy, the ingenue of edible landscaping, does it again with <i>The Edible Italian Vegetable Garden</i>&#8212;an invitation to grow and prepare some of the exceptional varieties of produce for which Italian cooking is so justly famous. This beautifully illustrated guide to growing Italian vegetables gives you tips for planting and preparing fantastic varieties of tomatoes, greens, beans, eggplants, artichokes, peppers, herbs and more! <br><br> Readers will find suggestions on how to grow Italian vegetables in most North American climates, and how to prepare these fresh veggies: antipasti, soups, sauces and sides&#8212;from a delicious classic marinara to bread pudding with artichokes&#8212;and even preserves. <br><br> Mouthwatering photos throughout evoke the flavors of these delectable vegetables and dishes, and highlights Italian specialties, such as the greens that grow wild on Italy's hillsides.

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Learn to plan, plant and maintain a bountiful garden of brightly colored vegetables and then enjoy your harvest on the dinner table with this illustrated vegetable cookbook and gardening guide.With brilliant photos, plant information, and technical how-to, author Rosalind Creasy explains how to plan gardens with an eye for color. She takes us on a walking tour through The Hidden Villa, where she designed a 2,000 square-foot rainbow garden&#151;with the help of Josephine and Frank Duveneck, among others&#151;to the delight and amusement of thousands of school children from northern California.A section full of savory, delicious&#151;and colorful&#151;recipes gives fabulous suggestions on what to do with the great vegetables you can find in a rainbow garden. Some of these bright and tasty dishes include:Golden CazpachoPickled Golden BeatsRomano Bean Salad with Grilled TunaRainbow Party Slaw with ChardRed, White, and Blue Potato SaladBraised Red CabbageYellow Tomatoes Stuffed with Shrimp and SalsaTechnicolor nachosTrue-Blue PancakesAnd many more!

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With beautiful photography and region-specific growing tips, The Edible Asian Garden features delicious recipes and gardening techniques from China, Japan, India and Southeast Asia.With plant information and practical how-to, author Rosalind Creasy takes us on a tour of three of her own successful Asian gardens&#151;one suitable for cool weather, another for warmer weather, and a stir-fry garden&#151;to show the variety of vegetables that can be grown in a range of climates and for a variety of purposes.In «The Asian Garden Encyclopedia,» Creasy gives information for 108 distinct varieties of Asian vegetables. Looking for a novel ingredient to add to Friday night stir-fry supper? Why not grow it&#151;the Resources section offers many seed sources for Asian vegetables that are easier to plant than to find at your local market.Finally, in the Recipes section, Creasy presents common Asian ingredients and cooking methods.Featured Asian recipes include:Pickled GingerLemon Grass TeaCarrot and Garlic Stir-fryPea Shoots with Crab SauceThai Chicken Soup with Pigeon PeasVietnamese Salad RollsWinter Squash, Japanese StyleThai Red Vegetable CurryVegetable TempuraAnd many more!

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The Edible Pepper Garden acquaints the pepper novice with the numerous members of the Capsicum annum species&#151;from the pea-sized, blazing-hot chiltepin to the eight-inch sweet banana pepper&#151;and gives the chile initiate inspiration and suggestions to expand their pepper repertoire. With stunning photography and extensive definitions and explanations, Rosalind Creasy, the doyenne of edible landscaping, has taken the American fascination with peppers and made it accessible to the home gardener and home chef alike. Creasy takes us on a tour of two of her own extremely successful pepper gardens&#151;the first yielded twenty-one varieties of hot and sweet peppers! She provides variety-specific growing information along with culinary and preparation suggestions.

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Learn how to create a lovely Mexican garden and then create delicious dishes with your produce using this easy-to-use Mexican cookbook and gardening guide.Rosalind Creasy, the grande dame of edible landscaping, has compiled an amazing variety of Mexican herbs and vegetables and has brought them up from south of the border straight to our dinner plates.Mexican food, Creasy tells us, consists not only of crispy tacos and refried beans, but also savory salsas and mole verde, corn-on-the-cob dipped in crema and grated anejo cheese, and winter squash soup. With gorgeous photography and practical growing tips, Creasy takes us on a tour of several of her own Mexican gardens, where authentic varieties prevail and colorful design reigns.She addresses climate concerns, as well as the process for saving seeds and incorporating Mexican flower varieties into the garden plot for variety, for color, and to ward off pests and insects.In addition to gardening techniques, some of the delicious Mexican recipes include:Mole VerdeSalsa FrescaCactus Paddle SaladTortilla SoupWinter Squash SoupRed PozoleFava Beans with TomatoesPork Shoulder Sandwiches with TomatillosMelon CoolerAnd many more!

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This vegetable cookbook and gardening guide has everything you need to know about cultivating, harvesting, and serving green leafy vegetables from around the world.You'll learn about preparing soil, when to plant, and when and how to harvest. Creasy shares her own extensive knowledge, as well as drawing on the expertise of other culinary and gardening experts. You'll find photographs and instructions on how to grow and use more than two dozen varieties of lettuce, as well as arugula, cabbages of many kinds, chicories and cresses, endives, and kales.In addition to vegetable gardening techniques, the many salad recipes include:Caesar SaladTangy Salad with Roasted Garlic DressingSpicy Valentine SaladWild, Wild Party SaladSpinach and Watercress Salad with Savory MayonnaiseEndive Salad with Oranges and PistachiosAnd many more!

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Learn how to create a lovely French garden and then create delicious dishes with your produce using this easy-to-use French cookbook.In this sumptuous volume, the American master of edible landscaping looks at French vegetables and variations on the traditional French parterre garden, in which edibles are grown right along with flowers in formal settings. This book is a must-have for any gardener interested in the flavors of France.The «Resources» section gives you sources for all you'll need to put in your own French garden. Along with a fascinating history and tour of French gardens, Creasy introduces "cut-and-come-again and other harvesting methods used in France.Along with French gardening techniques the many featured recipes include:Roasted Garlic SpreadCream of Carrot Top SoupLeek and Potato Soup with SorrelLeeks in VinaigretteAsparagus with Hollandaise SauceBraised Lettuce with Lemon ThymeAnd many more!

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With Edible Herb Garden , you can reap the joys and benefits of growing herbs at home! Edible Herb Garden is an all-inclusive guide to herb gardening, with several delicious herb recipes included. It features information on growing an incredible selection of fragrant and savory herbs. Then, it provides recipes to prepare your bounty in meals as well as herb blends, herbed oils and vinegars and even herb-flavored vodka! This information-rich book touches on herb garden design, herb gardening in containers, pest and disease control, and harvesting your herbs. It also includes an encyclopedia of culinary herb varieties. Take your culinary creations to the next level with this beautiful herb gardening book and discover the rich flavors that await when you take herbs to their fullest potential as an ingredient.

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Learn how to grow lovely and fragrant flowers then use them create delicious meals with this beautifully illustrated flower gardening and cooking book. Anyone who picks up The Edible Flower Garden will be tempted to grow, harvest, and sample at least a few of the more than forty varieties of edible flowers. Among them, you'll find more familiar food plants&#8212;dill and mustard, for example&#8212;in addition to common flowers, such as tulips or roses. Author Rosalind Creasy's stunning photography and detailed plans for an edible flower garden make this a must-have book for any flower gardener or home chef. Come along with Creasy on a tour in colorful pictures and careful diagrams and descriptions of her own flower gardens. Included is a tour of the edible flower gardens of Alice Waters famed Chez Panisse restaurant. Creasy catalogues each variety of flower and how to grow it, plus gives a myriad of delectable ideas on how to use the flower from candied violets and roses to decorate appetizers and cakes, to nasturtiums for a colorful shrimp salad, to day lily buds, pink clover and wild mustard flowers that are tossed together in a spectacular stir-fry. Favorite Recipes Include: Flower Butters Candied Flowers Tulip and Endive Appetizer Pineapple Sage Salsa Rose Petal Syrup Lavender Ice Cream And many more&hellip;

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