Farmers' Market / Cooks' Books

July 1 the Farmer's Market at Crocker Field opens at 3:00. Are you looking for new ways to prepare your favorite vegetables, or what to do with that odd looking, or strangely named, vegetable you have never heard of?

The Library has many cookbooks full of recipes for you to try. They include Mollie Katzen's Moosewood Cookbook and her book Salad People And More Real Recipes…For Preschoolers And Up. The Harvest Eating Cookbook: More Than 200 Recipes for Cooking with Seasonal Local Ingredients, by Keith Snow, promotes health and sustainable living. Barbara Kingsolver and her family tell their story of eating locally in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. There are many general cookbooks that have recipes from soup to nuts. Jim Denevan's Outstanding in the Field: a Farm to Table Cookbook is one example. Check the index in the back of one and find a recipe for the vegetable you have.

If you are interested in saving time or money there are books for you as well. Erin Chase wrote The $5 Dinner Mom Cookbook. The Frugal Gourmet, Jeff Smith, has The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American. To save time, Express lane meals: what to keep on hand, what to buy fresh for the easiest-ever 30-minute meals is just one of the Rachael Ray titles available.

Come to the library Tuesdays 10-5, or Wednesdays and Thursdays Noon-7:00 to browse the collection and check out your favorite. You can also visit us on line at www.fitchburgpubliclibrary.org. View the catalog and request a particular book if you have a valid library card. We will pull it from the shelf (or if it is out put it on hold it for you) and have it for you at the circulation desk. If you do not have a card come visit us with two forms of ID with your mailing address on them and apply.

Come in and discover new worlds of preparing vegetables.