Leafy Greens: An A-to-Z Guide to 30 Types of Greens Plus More than 120 Delicious Recipes

by Mark Bittman

Overview

The handy, healthy reference and cookbook from the James Beard Award-winning author of How to Cook Everything—now with a new introduction.

Kale and collards. Radicchio. Chinese cabbage. Swiss chard. Mustard greens. Broccoli raab. Arugula. Belgian endive. Greens are among our most delicious, nutritious, and versatile vegetables. All of us know we should be cooking with them, but few of us know how. In his classic Leafy Greens, bestselling author Mark Bittman shares what he knows about more than 30 common kinds of greens so you can start using them in satisfying salads, sides, and main courses every day.

Bittman will help you learn where and when to purchase them, why they’re good for you, and how to cook them in more than 120 delicious, healthy ways. And with his easy-to-use A-to-Z format and single-page recipes, Leafy Greens packs as much information into one book as there are micro-nutrients in a bunch of kale. Try delicious recipes like:

• Grilled Chicken Salad with Mesclun
• Gingered Cabbage
• Coconut Curry Soup with Chard
• Risotto with Arugula and Shrimp
• Hamburgers with Spinach and Parmesan
• Baked Penne with Radicchio and Gorgonzola
• Corn and Kale Stew, and many more

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780544187122
Publisher:	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date:	03/19/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	524,631
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

MARK BITTMAN is the author of more than thirty books, including the How to Cook Everything series and the #1 New York Times bestseller VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health . . . for Good. He was a food columnist, opinion columnist, and the lead magazine food writer at the New York Times, where he started writing in 1984 and remained for more than thirty years.   Bittman has starred in four television series, including Showtime’s Emmy-winning Years of Living Dangerously. He is a longtime Today regular and has made hundreds of television, radio, and podcast appearances, including on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Real Time with Bill Maher, and CBS’s The Dish; and on NPR’s All Things Considered, Fresh Air, and Morning Edition.   Bittman has written for countless publications and spoken at dozens of universities and conferences; his 2007 TED talk “What’s wrong with what we eat?” has almost five million views. He was a distinguished fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, and a fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists. He has received six James Beard Awards, four IACP Awards, and numerous other honors.   Bittman is currently special advisor on food policy at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, where he teaches and hosts a lecture series. He is also the editor in chief of Heated. His most recent book is his history of food and humanity, Animal, Vegetable, Junk.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

The Greens 14

The Recipes

Soups 51

Salads 71

Side Dishes 103

Light Dishes 133

Main Courses 155

A Note to the Gardener 187

Index 189