Urban Pantry »

A modern, sustainable approach for stocking an efficient kitchen

• Timely recession-proof tips for getting the most out of your pantry and produce
• Great gift for home cooks, gardeners, and canners
• Focuses on small-batch preserving for home owners and apartment dwellers Urban Pantry is a smart, concise guide to creating a full and delicious larder in your own home. It covers kitchen essentials, like what basics to keep on hand for quick, tasty meals without a trip to the store, and features recipes that adapt old-fashioned pantry cooking for a modern audience. Avid chef and gardener Amy Pennington demystifies canning and pickling for the urban kitchen and provides tips for growing a practical food garden in even the smallest of spaces. Her more than sixty creative recipes blend both gourmet and classic flavors while keeping economy in mind, and include:

• Whole Grain Bread
• Indian-Pickled Carrots
• Herbal Minestrone
• Apricot Chickpea Salad
• White Bean & Preserved Lemon Salad
• Over Easy with Tomato & Polenta
• Chocolate-Buttermilk Cake
• Toasted Almond Crackers
• Potato Gratin with Cashew Cream
• Walnut & Garlic Chicken
• Fig & Flower Batidos
• Milk-Braised Pork Shoulder with Sage
• Rhubarb Jam
• Boozy Blood Orange Marmalade

Urban Pantry holds sustainability at its center: Take advantage of local ingredients, eliminate wasteful kitchen practices, and make the most out of the food you buy or grow.

AMY PENNINGTON is an organic gardener and all around food enthusiast. She worked for renowned chef Tom Douglas asa marketing manager and radio producer for several years before launching two businesses of her own: Go Go Green Garden, an edible gardening business that creates and maintains sustainable gardens for urbanites, and Urban Garden Share, a service connecting gardeners without dirt to neighbors willing to share their yards. A regular contributor to Edible Seattle, Amy lives in Seattle, Washington.