All about :? Cooking With The Seasons : A Year In My Kitchen By Monique Jamet Hooker? and? Tracie Richardson This very personal culinary narrative cookbook is meant to help you learn to prepare meals using fresh, seasonal ingredients grown in your geographical area, whatever your level of expertise in the kitchen.? It is also meant to entertain the casual reader with the experiences I shared with nine brothers and sisters while growing up on my family?s 17th century chateau farm in France.??????????? Over 200 recipes are included in the book, all inspired by the dishes and techniques I grew up with in Europe. At the same time the recipes are uniquely American because they call for a wide range of ingredients easily available to us here in the United States. The recipes are seasonally based month by month to encourage cooks to learn about and use foods grown regionally. A convenient, easy to read harvest chart individually detailing the peak times for fresh produce in five growing regions of the United States is included.? Following this chart makes understanding local growing seasons easy, and helps you u