Country Living Gardener a Garden of Recipes

by Cynthia Gibson and Synthia Gibson

Book Overview

With gorgeous watercolor illustrations and accessible text, this book appeals to garden aficionados and novices alike. Includes gardening advice and 50 tempting recipes. 2-color art throughout. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688159737
• ISBN13: 9780688159733
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Hearst Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 5.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.3" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Delicious and delightful

This book was a birthday gift. It's a breath of fresh air all around and truly delightful to read: witty, encouraging, personal. I love the illustrations. And the recipes are fun, simple, and delicious. I could easily keep this book with my favorite garden titles, but have decided to let Cynthia Gibson's writings have a permanent spot in my kitchen, along with Alice (Waters) and Julia (Child). I can recommend this book highly to anyone who loves fresh and original writing, food, and ideas for the garden.

Cooking, gardening and art - what better combination?

I've never seen a book quite like this one. It has wonderful, uncomplicated recipes, garden diagrams and suggestions for growing the raw ingredients (including flowers!), and charming, lovely artwork (I, like a previous reviewer, would also like to know if posters will be available). There is a wide range of home-grown ingredients, and fortunately all, with very few exceptions, will grow here in Montana, which, with our short growing season and temperature extremes, is usually the forgotten stepchild in garden books. I especially like the suggestions for garden layouts and instructions for planting and nurturing and the way the reader is taken from seeds to table. This is an inspirational guidebook for old and new gardeners alike - I bought one for me and one for my beginning-gardener/chef daughter. I can't wait to try the "Golden Calendula Custard with Raspberry Puree" and "Arf! Parsley Dog Biscuits".

A great book that even mother's (little) helpers will enjoy

This delightful book provides an ideal way to get mother's little ( & big) helpers enthusiastically involved in gardening. The clear directions and plan for planting, growing, harvesting and cooking edible herbs and flowers promises to sustain attention and enjoyment at every phase. The format is beautifully organized and presented (hope those amazing chaper-head watercolors become available as prints!), making it easy to do any of the recipie ideas as separate gardening projects. And for guys like me who are usually relegated to grass cutting and mulch toting, it gives me and the little helpers a chance to join in a project together that's guaranteed to have a delicious ending. With so many great recipie based garden plans to choose from ... I can hardly wait for harvest time. In the meantime thanks to this wonderful book I look forward to having all the family enjoy ( & learn) the phases and basics of gardening.

Run don't walk to buy this book!

There isn't a gardener or cook, or both who won't enjoy this book! Not only are the recipes fit for today's fast paced living, Cynthia Gibson's illustrations and paintings are breath-taking. The gardening information is from a pro as are the recipes. 5 Stars for Cynthia Gibson's 'A Garden of Recipes'!

Stunning art and great recipes from your own petit garden!

This is an original presentation of delight in kitchen and garden. There is literally no other book like it. Besides being a beautiful work of art, A Garden of Recipes is full of practical and easy recipes from your own petit garden that please the eye and excite the pallet. Gibson tells all. How to create it and how to eat it, and what it looks like! Her art work is first rate. The illustrations are suitable for framing, and the recipes are ones to add to your favorites. Vegetarians and meat lovers who are looking for wonderful ways to add variety to "that other food on the plate" will love this book. With the fine art work it is really two books for the price of one.