How to Fix a Leek: & Other Foods from Your Farmers' Market

by Sandra Garson

In How to Fix a Leek, Sandra Garson answers the most common questions posed to Maine farmers at their What is this? How long will you have it? Can I store it? What will I do with it? This easy-to-read, comprehensive guide includes uses for the marvels the farmers produce and carefully chosen, quick step-by-step recipes-taking full advantage of local flavor-so your meals are as memorable as Maine. About the Sandra Garson, a journalist, is passionate about food and Maine. Her first book, How To Fix a Leek, is the premier guide to farmers' markets. Garson's The Dharma of Cooking, with 108 precious recipes, to be published September 2011, will be the first book about how the Buddha influenced what we eat. Her food essays have been published in Downeast Magazine, Yankee, Radcliffe Culinary Times, the New Fillmore, and Tricycle, the Buddhist quarterly. Garson is an advisor to the Himalayan Pantry in New York, former owner of Tastewrights Catering in Brunswick and sold baked goods at the Brunswick Farmers' Market during the 1985 season.

222 pages, Paperback

First published May 18, 2011