Description
Go back to the basics in the kitchen and rediscover the joy of cooking with simple tools and fresh local and seasonal ingredients. A complete guide to the essentials of home cooking from the popular cooking school at Maine’s Salt Water Farm. Good cooking has nothing to do with fancy equipment, complicated recipes, or trendy, hard-to-find ingredients. The fundamentals are really quite simple: it’s about instinct, technique, and freshness. Annemarie Ahearn, dubbed by Food & Wine Magazine as someone “changing the way America eats,” believes that developing these essential skills can lead to a greater sense of confidence and fulfillment in the kitchen. Her credo: 1) Grow at least some of your own food to establish a deeper connection with the earth that provides your nutrition, 2) Be familiar with a range of cooking techniques so you can develop flexibility and intuition in the kitchen, and 3) Master the age-old cooking skills that will serve you your whole lifetime–cooking in cast iron, sharpening knives, and using a mortar and pestle. With these classic skills under your belt, and with 75 tried-and-true seasonal recipes, you’ll be on your way to putting consistently delicious, satisfying meals on the table every day while you learn to fall in love with the process.
Please Note: If you would like a hand-written dedication in your cookbook, simply email annemarie@saltwaterfarm.com and include the email address you used for your cookbook order as well as what you would like the dedication to say. Thank you.
Interested in reviewing Modern Country Cooking?
Contact my publicist, Claire Kelly.
What people are saying about Modern Country Cooking:
“Annemarie has distilled so much of what I love about Salt Water Farm in each page, recipe, and story in this book. Her cooking is soulful, honest, insanely delicious, and if I could, I’d move to Maine to be closer to it. Meanwhile, I’ve got this book.”
Alison Roman, author of Dining In
“Modern Country Cooking is a true expression of what it means to be a confident country cook. Annemarie’s portraits of each month in Maine and her inspired seasonal recipes make me miss the great Northern state I hold dear.”
—Joshua McFadden, executive chef at Ava Gene’s and author of Six Seasons
“Annemarie is your favorite teacher and classically trained chef rolled into one. Modern Country Cooking is an inviting culinary bible for anyone and everyone who craves an expertly prepared seasonal meal.”
—Julia Sherman, author of Salad for President
