In Praise of Tomatoes or 125 Best Pressure Cooker Recipes

In Praise of Tomatoes: Tasty Recipes, Garden Secrets, Legends & Lore

Author: Ronni Lundy

Straight from the vine to the cookpot and to terrific trivia: everyone will enjoy this juicy tribute to the tangy, tasty tomato. Begin with a horticultural look at resurgent vintage varieties: a comprehensive chart gives specific growing and eating details on more than 50 delicious types, both heirloom and hybrid. Find out how to create and cultivate the “essential tomato garden,” even on a windowsill. Then, head straight to the kitchen with information on how to store, peel, freeze, dry, can, and cook up the harvest. Recipes include such luscious dishes as tomato soup, jam, bread, and green tomato pie. Round out the enlightening feast with fun facts on the tomato’s history and tomato festivals.

Library Journal

Here are two celebrations of everyone's favorite summer vegetable. Lundy is a food writer and the author of Butter Beans to Blackberries, among other titles; coauthor Stehling is the chef/owner of a North Carolina restaurant called Early Girl Eatery (named after the tomato). She provides the history, science, and other significant tomato facts, while he supplies the recipes (some 50 in all), which are interspersed throughout the text. There are vibrant color photographs, lovely watercolors, reproductions of period advertisements and other memorabilia, and a chapter on the cult film Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! There is also a "Tomato Garden Primer" and a lengthy chart on growing and cooking with different varieties. Recommended for larger libraries. Davis-Hollander (founder & director, Eastern Native Seed Conservancy) presents a more ambitious but highly readable book. He includes a great deal more information, from a detailed chapter on heirloom tomato specifics and profiles of tomato growers and other notables to sidebars on tomato festivals around the country and a thorough guide to cultivation. Inspired by a diverse variety of cuisines, his 150 recipes-some of which come from well-known chefs (including Daniel Boulud and Rick Bayless)-are more appealing and simply mouth-watering. Recommended for most collections (where it should join Joanne Weir's excellent You Say Tomato). [A Good Cook Book Club selection.] Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Index of Recipes	8
	Introduction	10
	The Name Game: Identifying the Tomato from Science to Politics	14
	From Cozumel to the Cosmos: The Tomato Travels the World	28
	What's Old is New Again: The Heirloom Garden	48
	The Essential Tomato Garden Primer: By Barbara Ciletti	60
	The Compleat Chart for Cultivating & Cooking Tomatoes	77
	Oh Yes You Can Can, Freeze and Dry	98
	Jumpin' Jack Frost, It's a Gas, Gas, Gas: How You Get Tomatoes in January	106
	Here's to Health: The Tomato in Medicine	118
	Cannery Row: Processed Tomatoes	124
	Co-Starring Roles: Ketchup and Salsa	134
	Killer Tomatoes	138
	Tomato Kitsch Gallery	144
	From Tomatina to Tomato Art: Festivals Around the World	158
	The Tomato as Muse: Art Gallery	166
	Acknowledgements	174
	Index	175

See also: The Powerfood Nutrition Plan or 100 Questions and Answers about Celiac Disease

125 Best Pressure Cooker Recipes (Best Series)

Author: Cinda Chavich

One million pressure cookers are sold annually in North America.

In only thirty minutes a pressure cooker can prepare a tasty meal for the whole family.

Advances in pressure cooker design have made these small appliances safer and more convenient than ever before. Meals cook 75 percent faster, and they are significantly healthier, since the food retains more of its nutrient value while requiring less fat.

125 Best Pressure Cooker Recipes has recipes specially designed to take advantage of what pressure cookers do best. Pressure cookers are amazingly versatile:

• Starters such as Braised Artichokes with Red Pepper Aioli and Winter Mushroom and Barley Soup
  
• Delicious main course offerings include Chicken Stew with New Potatoes and Baby Carrots and Beef Shortribs in Barbecue Sauce


• Cajun Seafood Gumbo is outstanding when prepared in a pressure cooker as are side dishes like Maple Pork and Beans with Apples and Roasted Garlic Risotto with Asiago


• Orange Espresso Cheesecake and Cool Lemon Custards with Fresh Berry Compote are winners.

There is comprehensive information on all aspects of pressure cooking, including guidelines for adapting your own recipes, compensating for the effects of altitude on pressure cooking, as well as a comparison of the various styles and models of cookers on the market.