Buy the 2008 South Anchorage Farmers' Market Cookbook

The cookbook, written by Alison Arians (your Farmers’ Market Reporter) is a compilation of all the recipes from last year’s summertime farmers’ market newsletters, as well as from her wintertime Rise & Shine Bakery Bulletin emails, plus some additional recipes. The book contains over 100 recipes, on full-sized, spiral-bound pages. Alison wrote a thorough index and table of contents for the book, organized the vegetable section of the book alphabetically, and cross-referenced the recipes exhaustively, so you can easily find just the right recipe. Now you don’t have to search through your emails for recipes you vaguely remember, print out the pages of the newsletters, or try and figure out how to organize them once you have a pile of printouts on your counter. We all hope this cookbook is the answer to getting the recipes out of your computer and into your kitchen! And we hope you’ll be even more inspired to cook up loads of fresh vegetables, fruits, seafood, and bread.

When you buy the cookbook, which costs $15, you also get the COOLEST folding wire cookbook holder! It’s called the Pageboy Adjustable Bookholder. It folds up to almost nothing to fit in a kitchen drawer, it holds your place in two recipes at once so you can easily flip back and forth between recipes, and holds ANY size cookbook in the perfect position to read it while you’re cooking. Two more reasons I love it: it saves space on your counter because the cookbook is up on its edge, and your cookbook isn’t lying flat in a puddle of balsamic vinegar or maple syrup while you cook! The cookbook holders, sold separately, are $6.

You can get the cookbook and holder at the South Anchorage Farmers’ Market (on Saturdays, and when the Wednesday market starts, on Wednesdays, too!). If you’re having trouble making it to the market, but you’d like to buy a cookbook, contact Alison Arians at or by phone at (907) 677-3712 to arrange an alternative plan. Here’s a sneak preview of the table of contents of the cookbook:

table of contents

acknowledgments i
2008 market schedule ii
introduction v
vegetables 1
asparagus 1
beets 2
broccoli 8
brussels sprouts 15
cabbage 17
carrots 22
cauliflower 24
eggplant 27
green beans 30
greens, hearty winter 31
parsnips 34
peas 35
potatoes 38
red peppers 42
salad greens 43
squash, winter 53
tomatoes 58
zucchini 62
legumes and beans 64
fish and seafood 78
pasta and pizza 80
sandwiches & toasts 86
desserts 93
index 100