Spoonriver Cookbook

Description

A celebration of Brenda Langton's awardwinning Spoonriver restaurant and the local farms and vendors of the neighboring Mill City Farmers Market. With her longtime friend and coauthor Margaret Stuart, Brenda has compiled a flavorful variety of Spoonriver's offerings from quick-cooking one-pot dishes to simple and scrumptious vegetable sides, legume recipes, and whole-grain reparations. Brenda Langton's philosophy is built on the simple premise that a healthy diet is one of the best paths toward a long and happy life. The Spoonriver Cookbook is a celebration of her rich legacy that is at once local, healthy, and yes, supremely delicious.

Brenda Langton has been a presence in Twin Cities dining since 1972. She started her first restaurant, Cafe Kardamena, in St. Paul in 1978, and then moved it to Minneapolis and renamed it Cafe Brenda in 1986. Cafe Brenda operated until 2009. In 2006, Brenda opened Spoonriver and founded the Mill City Farmers Market. She is a senior fellow at the Center for Spirituality and Healing at the University of Minnesota and an educator and consultant on healthy eating. Margaret Stuart is a horticulturist, landscape designer, and personal chef who has been cooking natural foods since her late teens. Langton and Stuart are coauthors of The Cafe Brenda Cookbook, first published in 1992 and republished by the University of Minnesota Press in 2004. Mette Nielsen is a Minneapolis-based food and farm photographer. She has created food images for more than twenty-five years and is an active supporter of year-round local foods in this northern climate. Margaret Stuart is a horticulturist and owner of a garden design business. She is a chef and grows vegetables and herbs on her family farm in order to have varieties not always available in the market. She is also coauthor of The Cafe Brenda Cookbook (Minnesota, 2004).

"I adore Brenda Langton for her commitment, her principled unwavering vision, her social agenda, and most of all her scrumptious food." -Andrew Zimmern "Buy this book if you want to live longer! No one in the world can better combine ingredients than food guru Brenda Langton. She not only makes us healthier but eating her way makes us better people." -Dan Buettner, author of Blue Zone: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest "Brenda is a remarkably talented chef who makes extraordinarily delicious foods which also happen to be healthy, affordable, and relatively easy to make. That she has willingly shared her recipes is a gift to us all. Enjoy!" -David Eisenberg, M.D., Director of "Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives: Caring For Our Patients and Ourselves"