The book includes familiar favorites from the previous book alongside new additions. About 35 of the 101 recipes are totally new. Over half of the old recipes were improved.

Each recipe is marked with the food group, nutrition facts, and cost per serving. The average cost per serving is $0.78!

The book has indexes by the season, recipe category, and ingredient. Do you need more recipes for eggplant? Have you been wanting to use up the coriander or cardamom you bought once and haven’t used it since? Our index can help.

We include a variety of recipes, including main dishes, sides, sauces, breakfast, and dessert, but the focus for the new edition is fresh local produce. We also added serving ideas, cooking tips, and suggested substitutions in many of the recipes to support people who may be new to cooking, or new to cooking like this.

We have several new recipes that use local vegetables as a main ingredient, like Curried Butternut Squash Soup, Eggplant Bolognese, and Teriyaki Bok Choy with Chicken.

We also have flexible recipes, like How to Make a Frittata, that can be made with lots of different veggies. We hope that these changes will make it easier to cook with fresh ingredients from a local farmers’ market, farm stand, garden, or local produce subscription.