No matter where you live, the award-winning The Santa Monica Farmers’ Market Cookbook will inspire you to head out to your own farmers’ market and discover its treasures!
Amelia’s book is really three volumes in one: gleanings from the culture of farming; a guide to produce, meats, and cheeses found at this extraordinary market; and a great cookbook.
From the Foreword by Deborah Madison
A regional market with national presence, the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market has long inspired both renowned chefs and home cooks. For more than twenty years, Amelia Saltsman has shopped its stands, talked with its farmers, and cooked its magnificent produce for family and friends. The result is The Santa Monica Farmers’ Market Cookbook (Blenheim Press, August 1, 2007), a celebration of the market’s excellence and its hardworking farmers.
What’s the difference between white and green zucchini? What are amaranth, sapote, and ramps? With Amelia as your guide, you’ll learn the answers to these questions and more. In these pages, you’ll find advice on how to select and store produce, stories about farmers and their crops, chef and farmer cooking tips, and over 100 of Amelia’s simple, tempting recipes including:
- Fava Bean and Pea Shoot Salad
- Classic Tomato Soup with a Goat Cheese Swirl
- Black Cod with Green Tomatoes
- Roast Leg of Lamb with Oil-Cured Black Olives and Herbs
- Seared White Nectarines with Burnt Honey
- Meyer Lemon Sundaes with Cara Cara Oranges
and Tangelos
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Designed by Ph.D.
Photography by Hill Street Studios and Anne Fishbein
Soft cover; 224 pages; 112 recipes
Trim size: 8 x 8.75
$22.95
Winner of Four Awards! … view awards …
Writers’ Digest Prize for Self-Published Books
2008 Winner: Grand Prize
SMPL Green Prize for Sustainable Literature
2008 Winner: Adult Local Impact
National Indie Excellence Book Awards
2008 Finalist: Cookbooks
PubWest Book Design Awards
2008 Winner: Bronze Award for Cookbooks
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Words of Praise … view all …
She may not have been there from Day One: When the Santa Monica Farmers market first opened, Amelia Saltsman was living in Malibu, running a cooking school, raising young children and driving to Camarillo to buy strawberries. But since she moved to Santa Monica more than 20 years ago, Saltsman, a writer, cooking teacher and producer-host of the cable-access TV program “Fresh From the Farmers Market,” has been a market regular and one of its most passionate boosters.
Susan LaTempa, Los Angeles Times
It’s only fitting that a great farmers’ market has its cookbook. Thanks to Amelia Saltsman for her harvest of stories.
Mas Masumoto, organic farmer and author of Epitaph for a Peach
Farmers’ markets are one of our nation’s greatest resources, and knowing how to cook from them can unlock their deep treasures. Amelia Saltsman gives us the key.
Evan Kleiman, host of Good Food, KCRW-FM
Amelia Saltsman’s magnificent tome is an act of love, a perfect primer to the Santa Monica or any farmers’ market. I can’t wait to pick up some fresh vegetables and fruit to work my way through the enticing recipes.
Joan Nathan, author of The New American Cooking
When a masterful cook with a strong scholarly bent sets out to create a portrait of her farmers’ market, this is what you get—a book far beyond the usual. This is the book to keep in the kitchen and then stash on the back seat of the car on Saturday mornings.
Lynne Rossetto Kasper, host of The Splendid Table ®, American Public Media
There’s no one better qualified than Amelia Saltsman to present our farmers and our foods to the world.
Laura Avery, Market Supervisor, Santa Monica Certified Farmers’ Markets
Amelia writes with a perfect blend of liveliness, the voice of a teacher, and a sincerity that rings true on every page.
Antonia Allegra, Founding Director of the Symposium for Professional Food Writers at the Greenbrier
[an] inspired and inspiring cookbook…
T. Susan Chang, The Boston Globe
In her first book, Saltsman proves that minimal effort, coupled with high-quality food, can produce extraordinary results.
Publishers Weekly
Each recipe is a tribute to the extraordinary produce on offer at this historic market, not just in the simple, elegant way ingredients are highlighted in these dishes, but also in the way she maps them to individual producers.
The Snail
Saltsman reminds us that the small but determined national movement toward local and sustainable eating rests entirely on the hardworking shoulders of regional farmerssavvy and lovingly craftedcontains a wealth of universal information about thinking seasonally and plenty of uncomplicated cooking techniques and seasoning ideas.
Mary Margaret Pack, Austin Chronicle
a treasure-trove of easy-to-make recipes. Her recipes concentrate flavors resulting in dishes that are vibrant yet simple.
Cathy Thomas, Orange County Register
beautiful, thoughtful, thorough, inspiring.
Annie Miler, Chef-owner Clementine
[an] indispensable volume that both seasoned chefs and kitchen newbies will treasure.
Los Angeles Confidential
The book is motivating: You’ll want to bag some beets right away to play with at dinner.
Lesley Bargar, Los Angeles Magazine
as much an homage to the farmers, their histories and their commitment to excellence as it is a collection of fuss-less, original and artful recipes inspired by the amazing varieties they produce.
Judy Bart Kancigor
Saltsman lets the food lead the way.
Libby Motika, Palisadian-Post
There is no one better [than Amelia Saltsman] to bring the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market Cookbook to us and there is no better resource than this book for the denizens of Southern California and especially the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market goers.
The Cook’s Library
It’s not often that I fall in love with a cookbook. When I do, it usually shares time between the kitchen and my library, shuttling back and forth as I use it. However, it’s rare when a book stays with me in my bag, going between the market, my home and my office. That’s what’s happening with Amelia Saltsman’s book The Santa Monica Farmers’ Market Cookbook: Seasonal Foods, Simple Recipes and Stories from the Market and Farm.
Matt Bites
I’ve gotten some great recipes and culinary ideas out of this book, as well as a greater appreciation for the changing supply of food I find at the market.
They Call Me Mommy
some would say it’s a gift to be simple, and the meal we cooked up [from the Santa Monica Farmers’ Market Cookbook] certainly felt like a present.
The Food Paper