Always in Season (PB)

Elise Richer has worked in restaurants, run her own baking business, and cooked many family meals. Her love affair with produce began when she was a teenager growing up in Massachusetts, where she worked at a farm stand and learned that a Macoun is much, much tastier than a McIntosh. As an adult, she lived and worked in Washington, DC, where she was spoiled by a long growing season and abundant peaches. She moved to Maine in 2003 and has been learning to love cabbage ever since. She was inspired to write Always in Season after hearing someone lament the constant appearance of dried beans in their farm share one winter. The result is a cookbook that is equal parts pragmatic and inspired. Elise lives with her family in Portland, Maine.

Teresa Lagrange is an illustrator/graphic designer who lives in Portland, Maine. She enjoys using bright, bold colors in her digital illustrations, but also creates soft watercolors and drawings. A graduate of the University of Maine, she worked as a designer at the Portland Museum of Art. When she isn't sketching on any paper she can find, or creating art on the computer, Teresa enjoys being with her family and spending time outdoors. She lives with her husband Jim, and two children, Grace and Jack.

"Reading this beautifully illustrated book is like being in the company of a savvy friend as she helps you sort out the contents of your CSA basket or your latest farmers' market haul. With a warm, witty, and refreshingly pragmatic voice, Elise Richer has created not just a cookbook but a solution for the common challenge of 'What do I do with all these ______?' This great New England home cooking and a testament to the pleasures and possibilities of eating locally and in season." 
— Amy Traverso, senior lifestyle editor at Yankee Magazine and author of The Apple Lover's Cookbook 

"Elise has captured the unique and outstanding flavor of New England's year-round bounty. I'm excited to see her show how simple and effective techniques, combined with a bold desire to use anything and everything from the farmer's market, can consistently yield healthy, satisfying, delicious meals, while supporting ecologically and socially sound practices to the utmost. New England should rightfully take its place among the great culinary regions of the world, and Elise has helped in no small way to make that case."
— David Scott Levi, chef and owner of Vinland restaurant (Portland, Maine)  

"With its clean, efficient style of layout and instruction and its weeknight-friendly recipes celebrating local produce, Always in Season is a must-have for New Englanders who shop the farmers markets, CSAs and farm stands."
— Amy Diaz, The Hippo