12 best healthy cookbooks from 2011
Bi-Rite Market’s Eat Good Food: A Grocer’s Guide to Shopping, Cooking, and Creating Community through Food
By Sam Mogannam and Dabney Gough (Ten Speed, 2011)
This beautiful book is a shopping guide, cookbook, and community-building tool rolled into one. It's a labor of love from Bi-Rite Market, a neighborhood grocery in San Francisco’s Mission District that’s been operating since 1940 and is now in the hands of second-gen son (and former chef) Sam Mogannam. With gorgeous, homey photos and practical information, the book not only provides yummy recipes but goes behind the scenes to explain how to identify the best ingredients, how to decipher labels, and how to reconnect with the people who produce your food. Sample recipes: Sauteed Fig with Proscuitto and Parmigiano; Strawberry Rhubarb Pie with Ginger Crumb Topping; Butternut Squash and Potato Gratin with Fresh Sage.