Outstanding in the Field

A Farm to Table Cookbook
by Jim Denevan with Marah Stets

Instead of bringing food to guests in a traditional restaurant setting, Jim Denevan brings diners to their food, creating what Alice Waters has called "the restaurant I always imagined". His innovative organization, Outstanding in the Field, sets up dinner tables in fields, ranches, dairies, vineyards, and community gardens across the country for alfresco meals that truly reconnect us with the land and people that produce our food.

In Outstanding in the Field, Denevan presents a cookbook full of seasonally inspired dishes from his farm-fresh dinners, sharing more than 100 recipes with home cooks and food lovers everywhere. Celebrating local ingredients at their height of freshness, favorites include Haricot Vert and Early Girl Tomato Salad with Summer Savory; Burrata Cheese with Nectarines, Mâche, and Hazlenuts; Sea Scallops with Sugar Snap Peas and Chervil; Pure Maple Syrup-Braised Short Ribs; and Upside-Down Fresh Fig Cake. All of the recipes present opportunities to use the most flavorful produce, meats, and cheeses in the area where you live—and suggestions for substitutions when necessary.

With inspiring recipes, beautiful photographs of farms and food across the country, and information on finding local ingredients,  Outstanding in the Field is a cookbook that celebrates the pleasures of raising, preparing, and enjoying good food.

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