Homegrown Cookbook

The Boston Homegrown Cookbook features mouth-watering recipes from 28 chefs and restaurants in the Boston area who subscribe to the philosophy that locally grown, sustainable foods taste best. The recipes are lavishly illustrated with colorful photos of the dishes, chefs, and local farmers who are dedicated to growing the best local foods. Featured restaurants and growers:606 Congress, Chef Rich Garcia, Blackbird Farm Bondir, Chef Jason Bond, Pete and Jen's Backyard Birds and Farmyard Clover Food Lab, Chef Rolando Rebledo, Farm Fresh Rhode Island's Market Mobile Cuisine en Locale, Chef JJ Gonson, Stillman's at the Turkey FarmEat Boston, Chef Will Gilson, The Herb Lyceum Erbaluce, Chef Charles Draghi, Ben's Mushrooms Hamersley's Bistro, Chef Gordon Hamersley, Blue Heron Farm Henrietta's Table, Chef Peter Davis, Sparrow Arc Farm Hungry Mother, Chef Barry Maiden, Woodbury ShellfishL'Espalier, Chef/Owner Frank McClelland, Apple Street Farm Lineage, Island Creek Oyster Bar, Chef Jeremy Sewall and Pastry Chef Lisa Sewall, Island Creek OystersLumiere, Chef Michael Leviton, Frizzell Hill Farm Meritage, Boston Harbor Hotel, Chef Daniel Bruce, City Growers Nourish, Chef Karen Masterson, New England Cranberry Company Oleana, Chef Ana Sortun, Siena Farms Parsons Table, Chef Chris Parsons, Lane's Lobster Redd's in Rozzie, Chef Charlie Redd, Shack Foods Rendezvous, Chef Steve Johnson, Eva's Garden Rialto, Chef Jody Adams, Captain Marden's Seafood Russell House Tavern, Chef Michael Scelfo, Fiore di Nonno Summer Shack, Chef Jasper White, Verrill Farm Tastings Wine Bar and Bistro, Chef Matt Maue, Brambly FarmsTavolo, Chef Nuno Alves, Seafood Specialties The Gallows, Chef Seth Morrison, Snappy Lobster Ten Tables, Proprietor Krista Kranyak, Allandale Farm Toro and Coppa, Chef Jamie Bissonnette, Round the Bend Farm Tosca, Chef Kevin Long, Weir River Farm TW Food, Chef Tim Wiechmann, Drumlin Farm

The Chicago Homegrown Cookbook: Local Food, Local Restaurants, Local Recipes celebrates the best homegrown food in and around the windy city, profiling 30 chefs who work together with local farms to bring the freshest, locally grown, sustainable foods to their menus. The book is organized by season and presents 100 delicious recipes. Featured chefs include Rick Bayless, Rick Gresh (Primehouse), Rob Levitt (MADO), and Mindy Segal (Hot Chocolate). Exquisite color photography illustrates the recipes and profiles.

This photography rich book is a love song for local food. Through narrating the stories of 31 Minnesota chefs and restaurants, the Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook offers 100 recipes that celebrate cooking with local, sustainably grown food. The passion of these chefs, and the farmers they work with, sings throughout the pages. This cookbook combines rich traditions and delightful innovations. The mouth-watering fare of world-class bed-and-breakfasts is here, alongside the saucy mix of cultural cuisines from kitchens at the Twin Cities' Café Brenda, Spoon River, Lucia's, Heartland, and the delectable slow cooking of eateries like the New Scenic Café in Two Harbors and Minwanjige Café in Strawberry Lake. Mixing the familiar comfort food of Minnesota's roots in the culture of Northern Europe with the fine new flavors of world cuisine, these recipes comprise a travel guide through Minnesota, with illustrated profiles of chefs and farmers, of food and farms. The Minnesota Homegrown Cookbook is the newest release from Renewing the Countryside (RTC), a Minnesota-based non-profit organization that champions the positive stories of rural revitalization.  In additional to developing books, RTC produces educational programming around local foods and sustainable agriculture including the Local Food Hero radio show, the Healthy Local Foods exhibit at the State Fair's EcoExperience and Green Routes, a sustainable tourism initiative.