The Kitchen Ecosystem

By:  Eugenia Bone / 408 pages Delicious meals are a matter of approaching your kitchen as a system of connected foods. The Kitchen Ecosystem includes meals that start with the freshest ingredients you can find, where each meal draws on elements from a previous one and provides the buildings blocks for another, the synergy of an ecosystem. Eugenia Bone uses seasonal ingredients, replaces commercial pantry products with homemade ones, and prepares base recipes to bump up the flavor of other dishes.  There is a great section on Preserving and Recipe Techniques. Some of our favorite recipes are the Roast Beet Salad with Feta, Scallions, and Cilantro on page 50 and the Flank Steak with Carrot Top Pesto on page 71.