Cooking Light Pick Fresh Cookbook: Creating irresistible dishes from the best seasonal produce

In 288 pages,Cooking Light Pick Fresh Cookbookwill share the secrets to buying, growing, and cooking your favorite fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Bursting with beautiful color photographs, this book is an invaluable resource for home cooks, novice gardeners, and food lovers alike.Cooking Light Pick Fresh Cookbookincludes:

Cooking Light Pick Fresh Cookbookfeatures:

• Fruits, Veggies, Herbs:Dedicated chapters guide you through choosing, storing, growing and preparing flavorful recipes using the freshest ingredients
• Expert Tips:Teaches you how to grow your own produce virtually anywhere
• Season-to-Season Garden Plans:Provides the basics on starting your garden, plus easy-to-follow instructions for maintaining and caring for your garden
• 200 Full-Color Photos and 150 Delicious Recipes For Food Lovers:Utilize the fresh taste of the seasons' best produce in your dishes from delicious appetizers and sides, to supremely fresh salads and main dishes, and delectable desserts
• Complete Nutritional Analysis:Each recipe includes a list of the key nutrients, vitamins and minerals
• FoodCorps' Guide to Connecting Kids with Fresh Produce:Cooking Light's media partner FoodCorps shares the three pillars for teaching gardening to children and shares inspiring stories from FoodCorps service members

Garden Editor andPick Fresh CookbookSpokesperson, Mary Beth Burner Shaddix leads theCooking Lightgarden, bringing basket-bursting harvests of fruits, vegetables and herbs to the pages ofCooking Lightmagazine andPick Fresh Cookbook. After 10 years working in the marketing and research department atCooking Light, Mary Beth traded in her business suits for rubber boots to get back to her roots-literally. Digging in spade first, she began learning the breadth of gardening at a local retail nursery and eventually working and being certified with Master Gardeners. Little did she know, the manager who curiously eyed her resume at the nursery would soon be her husband. They now grow together at their wholesale nursery and farm, Maple Valley Nursery, near Birmingham, Alabama. She is also the founder/owner of A New Leaf Consulting and manages social media at Bonnie Plants, Inc., a grower specializing in herbs and vegetables