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The Book and The Cook
Summer 2008
Cooking Demonstrations Highlighted Buy Fresh, Buy Local Closing Weekend Festivities
Shoppers at Head House Square Farmers Market had a pleasant surprise in store when they were joined by cookbook authors Anna Pump and Pat Willard.
Anna (Summer on a Plate), who “Barefoot Contessa” Ina Garten cites as an “inspiration”, brought her summer-perfect recipes to the demonstration stage. She prepared three dishes: grilled chicken salad with sugar snap peas and arugula; watermelon and feta salad and; sweet corn and tomato salad.
The cover of Anna's book |
Anna preps one of her many gorgeous and tasty summer dishes |
Anna Pump’s latest book is filled with delightful summer recipes, most of which take less than an hour from start to finish (“Life should become easier during the summer,” Anna says). Even though the dishes are simple to prepare, their flavors are sophisticated; in fact, many of them come from the summer menu at her Hamptons gourmet foods shop Loaves and Fishes. Pump organizes the recipes into eight chapters: Starters; Soups; The Bread Basket; Sandwiches for Beach, Picnic, or Terrace; Salads, Sides, and Go-Withs; The Grill; For Those Rainy “No-Grilling” Nights; and Desserts.
Pat Willard (America Eats!) used the incredible mix of farmers' products available at the Head House Square Market on Sunday, July 20 to fill the ingredient list for her Brunswick Stew.
The cover of Pat's book |
 Pat starts to prepare her Brunswick Stew |
 An amazing discussion began thanks to the audiences' questions |
Pat Willard’s writing is a journey to the heart of American regional cuisine. The original America Eats! began as a 1935 WPA project that sent out-of-work writers - including some soon-to-be famous names like Eudora Welty and Ralph Ellison - to chronicle America's regional cuisine, focusing on the group-dining dynamic of church suppers, harvest festivals, state fairs, political rallies, lodge suppers, and any gathering where food took center stage--"In a nation inhabited by strangers, sharing a meal lessened the loneliness of wandering across unfamiliar landscapes." One can understand the kind of lives led by those living throughout the American heartland through Pat’s examination of the development of local, traditional cookery by churches and communities, fairs, festivals, rodeos, fund-raisers, rent parties and the like.
Interestingly, Pat’s work makes the work on the original America Eats! available to the public for the first time. The original work was never published.
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