Eating From the Ground Up by Alana Chernila

Eating From the Ground Up by Alana Chernila is basically a vegetable cookbook not necessarily for vegetarians.  That may not sound like the makings for a wonderful cookbook but it is.  This is a cookbook for the person wanting to know what to do with all those wonderful vegetable that they suddenly have access to either from their own garden, from the farmer's market or just the family grocery store.  In the spring there is so much to chose from but how do you cook it?  Is it good?  How hard is it to cook?  This book answers all those questions and more.  This cookbook tells some of the simple ways to cook a vegetable, such as did you know that the best way to eat a beet is to roast it in the oven?  Did you know how to cook a beet at all?  Did you know that beets come any other way than from a can?  How about butternut squash? Do you know how delicious that it is?  Do you know how to cook it?  If you have too many how to store it?  How does the taste differ from a summer squash?  What can you do with the leftovers?  Do you have the guts to deep fry your own vegetables?  Do you know how much better it is to eat your own vegetables than that frozen bag of already breaded okra?  Did you know that you can eat the flowers of some of the vegetables and they are delicious? 

We all want to eat more healthy.  We all want to eat more vegetables.  We just don't know how to do it.  This cookbook takes all that insecurity and trades it in for knowledge.  This book could be enjoyably read just for the information but I think that the best thing about this cookbook is it gives the reader simple vegetable recipes for cooking simple healthy meals that don't take all day or much planning.  When you have made this cookbook's vegetable recipe you will know what the vegetable tastes like and you will love it.  I enjoyed the reading of this cookbook and wish that those who think they don't like vegetables would use it to learn to correctly cook (and not overcook) vegetables and I think that they too would love them and eat them.
I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.