Food for Talk is a book club for anyone interested in cooking!
We are going on a foraging hike this month in Shelburne at 10am and 1pm. Contact Barbara Shatara for details.
Instructions on how to join this community of home cooks and fellow culinary travelers can be found after the description of this month's cookbook.
Please register with Barbara Shatara at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov
About this month's cookbook: Forage, Harvest, Feast by Marie Viljoen
Marie Viljoen incorporates wild ingredients into everyday menus and special occasion fare. Motivated by a hunger for new flavors and working with thirty-six versatile wild plants―some increasingly found in farmers markets―she offers deliciously compelling recipes.
From under-explored native flavors like bayberry and spicebush to accessible ecological threats like Japanese knotweed and mugwort, Viljoen presents hundreds of recipes unprecedented in scope. They range from simple quickweed griddle cakes with American burnweed butter to sophisticated dishes like a souffléed tomato roulade stuffed with garlic mustard, or scallops seared with sweet white clover, cattail pollen, and sweetfern butter. Viljoen makes unfamiliar ingredients familiar by treating each to a thorough culinary examination, allowing readers to grasp every plant’s character and inflection.
Co-sponsored by City Market.
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About Food For Talk Bookclub:
If reading about food, experimenting with new recipes and learning from other cooks sounds fun, then the Food For Talk Cookbook Book Club is for you! Chef Richard Witting has selected some beautifully delectable cookbooks. Signing up is as easy as 1.2.3....
1. To register, contact Programming Librarian, Barbara Shatara, at bshatara@burlingtonvt.gov
2. Ask for a copy of the cookbook at the Library's Main Desk. Or, place a Hold on the cookbook. We will contact you when the book is ready.
3. Read through it, make a dish (though not required) and bring your experiences to the discussion. Barbara will send you meeting information the week of the discussion.