Best Seasonal Cookbooks: 2024 Update

Today, we will be discussing Best Seasonal Cookbooks as it is always good to have fresh fruits and vegetables over ones that are stored and available throughout the year for the following reasons:

• Seasonal fruits and vegetables are fresher and tastier
• They will be more affordable
• It helps you boost immunity
• It enhances digestion

Optimizing your diet with every coming season can help you with such benefits, so let’s see the seasonal cookbooks:

Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables by Joshua McFadden

Joshua McFadden is now a writer and owner of a restaurant in Oregon. He was a chef earlier and has worked in multiple restaurants in the USA and even Rome.

Six Seasons starts by mentioning Joshua’s early career days when he got a boost and was exposed to the best kitchens in Oregon. This exposure made him realize that the journey of good food doesn’t start in the kitchen but on the farms.

With that understanding and knowledge, he started finding ways to get to the roots to understand things better, and at the same time, he got a job working for Eliot Coleman on a four-season farm in Coastal Maine.

The author also describes his experience writing Six Seasons book and the knowledge he gained while writing it. He then explains what you can expect from the book and provides a few basic ingredients and how each adds value to your dish.

 The book has been bifurcated into seasons:

1. Spring
2. Early Summer
3. Mid-Summer
4. Late Summer
5. Fall
6. Winter.

Every dish has a small note from the author, mentioning either the dish or his experience with it. This is followed by the ingredients, steps to prepare, and a section called “more ways”, which tells you different ways to present and prepare the dish.

Time: A Year and a Day in the Kitchen by Gill Meller

Gill Meller is an award-winning writer, food stylist and chef. In the last 8-9 years, he has given us 8 cookery books. Time is a 320-page-long seasonal food book.

Gill Meller starts the book “Time” with a very personal question: “What do you think of when you think of time?”

The author explains what it means to him and the minute details of his life, from childhood to adulthood. Later on, he connects this question to food and the importance of food and cooking in his life.

The author has breakdown the book into:

1. Morning
2. Day
3. Night

Each part of the day has seasons, so it becomes easier for you to switch between a morning meal in spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

Every recipe in the book has a picture of the final dish, ingredients, and procedure for making it. Don’t forget the little story attached to each recipe in the book.

Seed to Table by Luay Ghafari

Luay Ghafari has a vision of helping anyone on the food journey, from gardening to preparing food. He is himself a gardener, garden educator, and recipe developer.

Last year, he launched his book Seed to the table in 2023. The unique thing about Seed to Table is that every dish has a QR code; if you’re a visual person, that would excite you.

It is not just cookery but more of an educational book because it teaches you how to grow vegetables, herbs and the food essentials by yourself including:

1. Growth pattern
2. Growth technique
3. Growing difficulty level
4. Suitability for small spaces and balconies
5. How to preserve
6. How to dry herbs
7. How to make refrigerated pickles
8. How to make fermented Hot Sauce
9. Learn about type of soils and hardness of soils

The content of the book goes as follows:

1. Garden to Table
2. Crop Guides
3. Garden to Table Recipes & Preservations Techniques
4. Garden Planning
5. Growing Techniques
6. Fundamentals of Soil
7. Seeds, Seedlings and Planting Guide
8. Seed Starting for Beginners
9. Garden Maintenance
10. Season Extension and Winterization

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, one year of seasonal eating by Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara is a famous prize winning American novelist, essayist and poet. She has published 30+ books and animal, vegetable; miracle is one of her most famous books.

The book talks about how things have changed in today’s fast life. We expect everything to be done almost instantly but food has to an exception it might do more damage than you can think off.

Taking charge of your own food can be one of the best decisions one can take towards healthy life so did the writer of the book took by creating a rule that they won’t have anything that has been outsourced away from a certain radius from their home.

The book has a very long index, one chapter dedicated to each month.

Conclusion

It is always good to be conscious and know what you take inside your body, and having seasonal food is even better as it will be fresh and boost your immunity and digestion. I am sure you will learn something new, and reading this blog will give you an awakening towards improving your life. Eat fresh and stay healthy.

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