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Sure, peas and carrots are nutritious and all, but according to cookbook author Jill Gusman, they're merely "land vegetables." In Vegetables from the Sea, she offers recipes for such exotica as kombu, wakame and bullwhip kelp. These veggies, which many people might call, well, seaweed, are a mainstay of Japanese cuisine and packed with minerals and disease-fighting antioxidant vitamins. Dulse, which Gusman uses to make Irish soda muffins, has a deep burgundy hue and a smoky flavor, and hijiki, which she puts on crostini, is jet black and sweet. Home cooks can find edible seaweeds in dehydrated form...
...punch line, a media mogul or an accused felon, Martha Stewart was a person who would stand her ground, no matter what. In 1987, when Stewart was negotiating with Kmart for the licensing deal that would turn her into, literally, a household name, she was just a popular cookbook author--"a nobody," says Paul Argenti, who worked on the project as a consultant to Kmart's CEO. Nevertheless, she stood up to Kmart's top executives, who wanted her to take an exclusive deal with the Lifetime cable channel to help promote the new line. "She's very passionate when...
...pity more Americans don't enjoy their gnocchi and zucchini flowers with a bottle of prosecco, as celebrity cookbook queen Nigella Lawson does [AT DINNER WITH, May 26]. Too many people are washing down their Wal-Mart hot dogs and fat-free Oreos with Snapple. Or jogging off their egg-white omelets. I would love to see a healthy middle ground between eating junk and starving to be thin. The norm should be voluptuous women and a savoring of good food and long dinners. SHERRY OLSEN San Francisco
...local farms. But in Maine they found their choices limited and decided to grow their greens and vegetables. The garden supplies the restaurant with 20 kinds of tomatoes, 28 varieties of lettuce and many other vegetables. Gaier and Frasier hope to inspire home cooks with their new The Arrows Cookbook (Scribner). Even people without an acre of land can use the book, says Gaier: "We hope that people will go to the market, find beautiful produce and then let the book inspire them...
Kleinberg also notes that having firm post-graduation plans gave her the luxury of graduating early. Kleinberg will travel around the world on a Finley Traveling Fellowship to write a cookbook. She plans to enter a masters program at Oxford the following year...