Nothing evokes comfort, warmth, and mouth-watering hospitality like the dishes prepared by people who actually grow the food. From Susan Herrmann Loomis, author of The French Farmhouse Cookbook, The Italian Farmhouse Cookbook, The Great American Seafood Cookbook, and Clambakes and Fish Fries, Farmhouse Cookbookis the result of a 20,000-mile trek across rural America in search of the soul of the family farm. Passionate in her quest to taste the freshest corn, understand the basics of cattle ranching, and find out just how an artichoke grows, the author contacted legions of farmers who generously shared their time, their knowledge, their homes, and their recipes.

Although Farmhouse Cookbookincludes the best pot roast, meat loaf, and stew you're ever likely to encounter, it goes well beyond the expected meat-and-potatoes fare. Here is Chew Chang's Chicken and Mustard Green Soup, Lentil Salad with Smoked Turkey and Tarragon, Pork Loin with Coriander and Garlic Crust, a Basque Fourteen-Hour Leg of Lamb, Lemony Herbed Chicken Wings, Nate Pennell's Mulligan Stew with Blueberry Dumplings, Amish Corn Pudding, and Mary Navarette's Garlicky Enchiladas, from the Christopher Farm in Gilroy, California, the garlic capital of the world. Plus, extraordinary baking-Hot Pepper Corn Bread, Funny Cake, Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies, Rhubarb Crunch, Sour Cherry Crumb Pie, and Best Ever Chocolate Cake.

With profiles of farms and farmers, tips, lore, and an almond to zucchini lexicon, Farmhouse Cookbookis as irresistible as the ring of the dinner bell over the fields.

Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club's HomeStyle Books and Better Homes and Gardens Family Book Service. 197,000 copies in print.

A vibrant mosaic of 300 dishes from America's farmhouses.

A SOPHISTICATED COUNTRY PALATE

"Susan Loomis understands that food is made by people, not machines. In this excellent book, she shares her affection for the growers and their lives, the foods they grow and the ways they cook them . . . a culinary, social, and even political odyssey."

--Barbara Kafka, author of Microwave Gourmet and Microwave Gourmet Healthstyle Cookbook

Hot biscuits from a country kitchen. Duck Breasts with Honey and Thyme Sauce. Peach Pies cooling on the windowsill and Ancho Chile Pepper Puree in the larder. In a book as warm and generous and unexpected as the food it celebrates, Susan Hermann Loomis shares the fruits of a 20,000-mile adventure criss-crossing America in search of the soul of farmhouse cooking. Hear the dinner bell ringing.

FROM THE FARMHOUSE KITCHEN RECIPE BOX

Summer Tomato Pie

Pennsylvania Chicken Corn Soup

Lentil Salad with Smoked Turkey

Pork Loin with a Coriander and Garlic Crust

Barley with Saffron and Lemon

Dilled Beets and Potatoes

Montana Chicken Salad

Best-Ever Apple Pie

Hazelnut Crisps

Susan Herrmann Loomis is a European-based food writer whose work appears regularly in The New York Times; she also writes a weekly column for Conde Nast's epicurious.com. Her other books include Italian Farmhouse Cookbook, French Farmhouse Cookbook, Farmhouse Cookbook, and Clam Bakes and Fish Fries.

INTRODUCTION

What's Doing Down on the Farm?

HEARTY FARM BREAKFASTS: WARM STARTS ON A COLD MORNING

Just What is Organic Farming?

COFFEE BREAK: SNACKS TO KEEP THE ENERGY UP

Maytag Blue

Bill Krome and the Florida Avocado

WARMING SOUPS: A BIG POT OF SOUP

The Indochinese Farm Project

A Jar'a Jelly or a Cold Beer

The Carpenters of Grady, Arkansas

The Herbfarm

FLAVORFUL MEAT DISHES: MEATS, THE CHOICEST OF THE CHOICE

Mike Mohr and His Hogs

The Kirschenmann Family Farm

The Artichoke Grower of Castroville

FOWL AND FISH: POULTRY IN EVERY POT AND A SMALL KETTLE OF FISH

Do-Si-Do and Promenade Home

The Christopher Ranch

The Dufners Do It Differently

Aquaculture

FRESH VEGETABLES, BEANS, AND GRAINS: A HEAPING BOUNTY OF VEGETABLES AND GRAINS

Seattle's Pike Place Market

The World's Sweetest Carrots

Biodynamic Farming

Those Lustrous Winter Greens

Polish Up Those Fruits and Vegetables

There's Gold in the Hills

Lundberg Rice

A Farmer at Heart

The Greenmarkets of New York City

GARDEN SALADS: FRESH SALADS FROM THE FARMHOUSE GARDEN

The Seed Savers' Exchange

"Old Farmer" Michaels

A Slippery Harvest

Star Route Greens

Solviva on Martha's Vineyard

A FULL LARDER: PRESERVING THE ESSENCE: A FARMHOUSE LARDER

Rosey's the Name, Produce Is the Game

An Auction in Amish Country

Hazelnuts by Any Other Name

CRUSTY BREADS: BUTTERY BUNS AND BREADS

If It's Idaho, It Must Be Potatoes

COOKIES AND CAKES: COOKIES, CAKES, AND A COUPLE OF CANDIES

Pete Yamamoto and His Almonds

The Best Kind of Molasses

What Are Those Berries Doing Down South?

The Farmer Prophet

MILE-HIGH PIES: PIES, PIES, PIES

Cranberries

An Education in Blueberries

The Pavich Grape Story

FRUITS, DESSERT: A DESSERT ASSORTMENT

Oh, Those Flavorful Apples

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX