The Kentucky Fresh Cookbook

Book excerpt: A seasonal food journey with native Kentuckian Maggie Green, The Kentucky Fresh Cookbook takes home cooks through a year of cooking delicious meals. Green guides both aspiring and experienced cooks through the rich variety of Kentucky ingredients and traditions with easy-to-follow instructions. Incorporating seasonal and local Kentucky produce and products in her recipes but also substituting frozen or canned food when necessary, Green makes cooking homemade meals not just tempting but effortless. Combining more than two hundred recipes with menus for daily meals, holiday events, and special family occasions, The Kentucky Fresh Cookbook acknowledges the cycle of Kentucky's culinary and agricultural traditions. Green shows how cooking with regional ingredients, including buttermilk, cornmeal, Bibb lettuce, bourbon, blackberries, pork, fresh herbs, honey, and black walnuts, can shape menus throughout the year.