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• Schneider, Elizabeth

America's most esteemed produce expert offers an indispensable encyclopedia and cookbook.

Elizabeth Schneider returns with an all-new guide that chronicles America's emerging multinational vegetable vocabulary. With the scholarship for which she is famous, Schneider has produced an encyclopedia, market guide, and recipe resource without equal. Describing some 300-plus vegetables, exotic to everyday, she makes unfamiliar amaranth greens as easy to use as common zucchini--and make zucchini more interesting than anyone ever knew it could be.

Every entry provides a full-color identification photo of each vegetable, its market names in the United States, and richly readable historical information. Here, too, are practical sections on availability, selection, storage, preparation, basic use, cooking methods, and best of all, reliable recipes.