Some Lettuce Literature

It’s National Salad month which means we celebrate all things salad, green and growing. While TasteWise Kids’ content is focused on students, we know that adults love to learn and read too. So we are sharing some of our favorite books plus a few podcasts to explore if you are more of a listener than a reader. 

Salad Books 

Salad For President by Julia Sherman “offers a window into how artists approach preparing their favorite dishes. She visits sculptors, painters, photographers, and musicians in their homes and gardens, interviewing and photographing them as they cook. Utterly unique in its look into the worlds of food, art, and everyday practices, Salad for President is at once a practical resource for healthy, satisfying recipes and an inspiring look at creativity.” 

Salad Freak by Jess Danmuck is for folks looking for something new and different in salads. Organized by seasons, you can find all kinds of inspiration and ideas in this book, even salads for breakfast! “A salad can be a side dish, but it shouldn’t get stuck being an afterthought,” Damuck writes. 

Ruffage by Abra Berens is both a cookbook and a learning tool. Organized by vegetable, each chapter takes you on a journey about the ingredient, and offers lots of variations of how to prepare each, including braised, blistered, roasted and raw.

Organic, Inc.: Natural Foods and How They Grew by Samuel Fromatz. This book takes a deep dive into what it means to be organic and explains the natural food world. “Fromartz traces organic food back to its anti-industrial origins more than a century ago. Then he follows it forward again, casting a spotlight on the innovators who created an alternative way of producing food that took root and grew beyond their wildest expectations.”   

Leafy Podcasts

• The Splendid Table
• Free wheeling salads (12 mins)
• Shake your way to a better salad (8 mins)  

 What books or podcasts would you add? Please email us at info@tastewisekids.org or share on FB or IG so we can grow our list.

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