Salad for Dinner

Whether you're making a weeknight dinner for the family or a weekend party for a crowd, this is the book you'll reach for time and again. Salad for Dinner should be subtitled: gorgeous, satisfying, surprising meals you'll want all through the year. --Dorie Greenspan, author of Around My French Table Jeanne's book is a brilliant new take on salads -smart, thoughtful and full of stunning flavor combinations. -Kim Boyce, author of the James Beard Award-winning Good to the Grain Jeanne Kelley is not like you and me. Her real genius is in assemblage , the ability to transform a seemingly random plateful of vegetation into a composition perfectly evocative of the season, and the gift of Salad for Dinner is that it lets us do the same. -Jonathan Gold, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for L.A. Weekly Jeanne Kelley shows you how to make a salad that will rock your dinner table . From growing your own to foraging greens, Kelley expands your salad horizons. -Erik Knutzen, co-author of The Urban Homestead and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post Consumer World Since southern California is one of the world's great salad bowls, both in terms of its superb produce and the cross-polinating ethnic variety of its population, you couldn't possibly find a better cook than Los Angeles-based Jeanne Kelley to help you discover its culinary bounty. She's also a serious but very charming writer , and this beautifully produced book should be sold with a spatter-guard, since it's one that will live in the kitchen. -Alexander Lobrano, Saveur writer and author of Hungry for Paris Jeanne's homage to salads is wonderful. I love the clean, simple sophistication of the cookbook, and the recipes are innovative as well as informative. This book is like a salad 'bible,' and will inspire you to cook, garden, entertain, and appreciate all the joys of living. This is no coffeetable book-it will stay in your kitchen at all times. -Suzanne Tracht, Chef/Owner of Jar, Los Angeles, Top Chef Masters star, and Food and Wine Best New Chef. The photos are lavish; the recipes are both imaginative and easy to follow. -- San Diego Magazine ... this is simply a book you really want to cook from . There is a fantastic glossary of greens that tells you about those market finds and what to do with it, followed by a primer on how to build a great salad. --LA Weekly Blog