Urban Pantry

Tips & Recipes for a Thrifty, Sustainable & Seasonal Kitchen

  • 176 pages
  • Skipstone
  • 978-1-59485-346-3
  • Mar 26, 2010

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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 &Lemon Salad
  • Toasted Almond Crackers
  • Potato Gratin with Cashew Cream
  • Walnut & Chicken
  • Fig & 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.

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  • 176 pages
  • Skipstone
  • 978-1-59485-346-3
  • Mar 26, 2010
Reviews
  • Pennington offers up pithy advice on kitchen economy and stocking a practical pantry. Her recipes, from soups to pickles to temptations like vanilla quinoa pudding, offer ease of preparation and healthful ingredients.
    Valerie Easton, Seattle Times
  • Heck, she could have just put my name on the cover with a big “BUY ME” sticker.
    Maggie, MagChunk Blog
  • This cookbook will have you cooking “economically and eco-fabulously” for many seasons to come.
    Rebecca Brenner, Basil Magazine
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