The Farmer's Market Guide to Fruit: Selecting, Preparing, and Cooking

Two new books for healthy and delicious eating come in the shape of The Farmers' Market Guide to Fruit: Selecting, Preparing & Cooking by Jenni Fleetwood (The Traditional Country Kitchen Cookbook) and The Farmers' Market Guide to Vegetables: Selecting, Preparing & Cooking by Bridget Jones (Jams, Pickles and Chutneys). In both, produce shoppers learn the benefits of waxed versus unwaxed, organic versus nonorganic, surface blemishes to watch for and those to ignore, and a host of other small but important details. Fleetwood provides recipes like Shrimp and Peach Brochettes, Rhubarb and Ginger Cake, and Broiled Mackerel with Gooseberry Sauce, along with tarts, jams, muffins, ice creams. Likewise, Jones's recipes are many and various: Minted Cabbage with Ginger, Spiced Baby Eggplant, Pickled Cucumber Tabouleh and quiches, slaws, salads, dips, mashes and soups galore.