Ruffage : Chronicle Books : 9781452169323 : 23 Apr 2019 : Named a Best Cookbook for Spring 2019 by The New York Times and Bon Appetit 2020 James Beard Award Nominee ? Best Cookbooks ?Vegetable Focused Cooking Ruffage: A Practical Guide to Vegetables is not your typical cookbook-it is a how-to-cook book of a variety of vegetables. Author Abra Berens-chef, farmer, Midwesterner-shares a collection of techniques that result in new flavors, textures, and ways to enjoy all the vegetables you want to eat. From confit to caramelized and everything in between-braised, blistered, roasted and raw-the cooking methods covered here make this cookbook a go-to reference. Treasure trove of 300 recipes. Spanning 29 types of vegetables-from asparagus to zucchini-each chapter opens with an homage to the ingredients and variations on how to prepare them. 140 photographs show off not only the finished dishes, but also the vegetables and farms behind them. Vegetables as a side or a main. Take any veg