Ferry Plaza Farmers Market Cookbook or The Florida Keys Cookbook

Ferry Plaza Farmer's Market Cookbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Impeccable Produce

Author: Peggy Knickerbocker

Internationally known as one of the most magnificent farmers' markets in the world, the San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market has inspired this gorgeous illustrated market companion. The perfect guide and cookbook no matter where you live each page celebrates the abundant seasonal produce grown by local organic and specialty-crop farmers along with more than 100 fresh, remarkably easy-to-assemble recipes. Organized by season, the book details the availability of products at the market and offers advice on choosing, storing, preparing, and freezing items. A foreword by Alice Waters, the history of the market, and vivid color photos throughout bring this farm fresh market guide to life.

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The Florida Keys Cookbook: Recipes and Foodways of Paradise

Author: Victoria Shearer

The Florida Keys has an equally robust culinary heritage and a fascinating, unusual history. Blessed with a rich tropical pantry and a colorful past, the treasures of the Florida Keys rate second to none. Bountiful harvests from the sea--grouper, snapper, dolphin fish, lobster, stone crabs, shrimp--rank as the freshest in the nation, sometimes only minutes from line to linen. And the sunny climate, whose average year-round temperature is 75 degrees, guarantees a year-round growing season.

Though the Keys coral bedrock has proved itself an inhospitable host to commercial growers, tropical fruits--key limes, mangoes, avocadoes, bananas, papayas, and citrus--flourish in backyard gardens from Key Largo to Key West. Commercial growers moved up to Homestead, at the gateway to the Keys, where the marsh lands of the drained Everglades provided idyllic conditions. The truck farms of Homestead provide produce for America's table.

With restaurants as diverse and creative as a miniature Manhattan, Key West leads the restaurant scene in the Keys. But for the length and breadth of the Keys, talented chefs reflect the enduring ethnic traditions of generations past as well as the cutting-edge composition and presentation you would expect to find in major cosmopolitan cities worldwide.

Within these pages, expert author Victoria Shearer combines terrific recipes with evocative stories and nostalgic period photographs to convey the Keys' unusual and fascinating local lore alongside recipes showcasing its robust culinary heritage.

Table of Contents:

The Florida Keys Cookbook

Introduction - The Florida Keys
Natural Influences on Keys Cuisine
The Tropical Pantry of the Florida Keys

Florida Keys Cuisine
1. Great Beginnings: Starters, Nibbles, and Bites
2. From the Melting Pot: Soups, Bisques, and Chowders
3. Salsas, Sauces, and Marinades
4. The Bread Basket
5. From the Garden: Salads and Vegetables
6. Rice, Beans, and Potatoes
7. From the Sea: Fish and Seafood
8. From the Mainland: Meat and Poultry
9. Grand Finales: Cakes, Pies, Cookies, and Desserts
10. Tropical Libations