Seasons & Celebrations

New Englanders love celebrating a new season and its crops, and New England Cooking helps you celebrate with them. The book begins with spring's maple syrup, fiddleheads, and shad. Then you'll find recipes for summertime berry harvests while reading about the ways Native Americans and Europeans enjoyed them. Next, sample shoreline recipes for lobsters, scallops, mussels, clams along with corn, tomatoes, peppers and all the other favorites of the fields of summer. Later still, you'll enjoy recipes for the apple harvests and for the the mountains of pumpkins and squashes that turn farmstands into a carnival of color. The holidays follow with a flurry of baking and cooking for parties and potlucks, Thanksgiving and Christmas. You can rely on this cookbook when planning your holiday treats and your everyday menus!

While the dramatic seasons bring constant variety to the food of New England, so do its people. With roots in England, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Quebec, Poland, as well as Asia and Africa, they have an array of recipes unequaled by any other area of the country. New England Cooking includes delicious dishes for religious feasts as well as recipes for regional holidays such as Patriot's Day Boston Marathon and Rhode Island's May breakfasts. Rich in historic detail AND traditional recipes, New England Cooking is absolutely up-to-date on contemporary recipes that reflect the way New Englanders eat and cook today. Focusing on foods grown and produced in the region, and alert to the work of chefs who have made many of its restaurants famous, the 200 easy-to-follow recipes in New England Cooking will tempt cooks into the kitchen and booklovers into their favorite chair

"Claire Hopley has delved deeper than most - past the cliché chowders, lobster, and blueberry pies - to produce a collection of recipes and essays that truly captures the region's complex traditions."
--Kathy Gunst, author of Relax, Company's Coming! (Simon & Schuster) and resident chef and food reporter for WBUR's award-winning "Here and Now."

"Claire Hopley has done an excellent job of reminding us of New England's rich culinary heritage by sprinkling interesting notes about the wonderful foods and traditions of this region throughout her book."
--Betty Rosbottom, author of American Favorites

$24.95
1-58157-052-X
October 2001
256 pages, 7 3/8 x 9 1/4, deluxe trade paperback, 200 recipes, 50 color photos