About this item
The Complete Kitchen Garden is an inspiring collection of garden designs and recipes for the home gardener and cook. based on the seasonal cycles of the garden, each chapter provides a new way to look at the planning stages with themes and designs such as "the salad lover's garden," "the heirloom maze garden," "the children's garden," and "the organic rotation garden." More than 100 recipes featuring the food grown in each specific garden encompass a full range of soups, salads, main course savory dishes, and desserts, as well as condiments and garnish to dress up the plate.Praise for The Complete Kitchen Garden:"With charming hand-drawn planting plans, bright color photos, and tempting recipes. . . . Ms. Ogden's book arms wannabe gardeners with all the tools to plan a productive garden before seeds ever meet the ground." - Wall Street Journal"There's no reason a vegetable garden must be an eyesore, banished to the corner by the garage. . . . The Complete Kitchen Garden . . . combines design advice, garden wisdom and recipes." -The Chicago Tribune
About the Author
Ellen Ecker Ogden is a food and garden writer, who co-founded The Cook's Garden seed catalog in 1984, introducing home gardeners to exceptional European and American heirloom lettuces and salad greens. The catalog grew to include a range of European specialties for gardeners who love to cook. Ellen developed seasonal recipes for the catalog, which appeared in her first cookbook, From the Cook's Garden. She has written five books on cooking and garden, and continues to teach and lecture on food and kitchen garden design. Her newest book The Complete Kitchen Garden was published in Spring 2011, (Stewart, Tabori and Chang) featuring her own kitchen garden designs to inspire gardeners to elevate their vegetable gardens into a work of art. Ellen contributes to numerous national magazines, and has been a guest on PBS- Victory Garden and HGTV's Garden Smarts as the Baroness of Basil. Visit her website at www.ellenogden.com
