THE SIMPLY GRANDE GARDENING COOKBOOK
Jean Ann Pollard, with Peter Garrett. . Burford, $18.95 (338pp) ISBN 978-1-58080-087-7
This environmentally friendly growing guide/vegetable pop-history/cookbook conducts a leisurely tour of the Simply Grande Gardens in Winslow, Maine, "which consist of 1 acre of well-loved and -tilled land where the husband-and-wife team of gardener-hydrogeologist... Garrett and artist-writer... Pollard plant and harvest delicious vegetables for 15 families... every year." Readers will learn where to buy the best asparagus seeds and how to grow them ("An asparagus bed could be your pride and joy till you're old and toothless"); how to contain mint and oregano using an old car tire; and how to prepare lamb's-quarters and make dandelion wine. Organized by season, the book nonetheless proceeds somewhat haphazardly; nutritional information, for instance, is provided only for some vegetables (peas and endive, yes; grape leaves, arugula and celery, no). Pollard (
Reviewed on: 05/07/2001
Genre: Nonfiction