Aliza Green Views
This Saturday, May 1, the Saturday Morning Breakfast Club at the Reading Terminal Market will welcome local food writer/chef Aliza Green. Aliza's latest book,y"Field Guide to Produce " has garnered attention from the New York Times, the Today Show and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Any Hounds interested are welcome to join the lively discussion with Aliza in our usual location, behind the Beer Garden in Reading Terminal Market, 9:30 am this Saturday.
Earthy, elegant, affordable, and nourishing, the healthful legume gets star billing in this comprehensive bean cookbook. More than 200 delectable recipesggathered from Aliza Green:’s travels throughout the world as well as from famous chefs and restaurants=are accompanied by essential information on bean varieties and cooking methods. Two-color illustrations and charts accompany an international array of recipes for appetizers, soups, salads, entrees, sauces, snacks, and desserts.
Aliza Green, the Philadelphia-based cookbook author, journalist and pioneering chef, is the author of ten highly successful cookbooks including Starting with Ingredients: Baking Recipes, released in fall 2008. Her newest book, The Fishmonger:’s Apprentice, will be published in early 2011 by Quarry Books. Green has appeared twice on NBC’s Today Show to promote her books. She has been interviewed in her own kitchen for Philly Food, a special production of WHYY Public Television in Philadelphia and writes for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Cooking Light Magazine and Clean Eating.
Aliza Green's book, Field Guide to Herbs & Spices (Quirk Books), is a 314 page, compact encyclopedic resource to help the reader identify over 44 herbs and 55 spices. A 62 page insert, which includes a plethora of color photographs, is provide to help with the recognition of the herbs and spices mentioned in the book.