About the author

Trish Sebben-Krupka is a chef, culinary educator, cookbook author, and freelance editor. She is the owner of Local Girl Makes Food, a personal chef and culinary education business catering to clients interested in vegan, vegetarian, and eco-friendly diets. She is the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide ® Greens Cookbook and Idiot’s Guides ®: Canning and Preserving and contributor to The Best of Vegan Cooking. Trish took her Master Food Preserver training through the Cornell Cooperative Extension and is passionate about home food preservation, sustainable eating, bread baking, and vegetable cuisine. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, Jim, and an assortment of former junkyard cats. Visit her online at trishkrupka.com.

Acknowledgments

Many thanks are due to those who helped make this guide possible: very special thanks to the wonderful editorial team at DK, especially Acquisitions Editor Lori Cates Hand and Development Editor Christy Wagner. Thanks also are due to my agent, Marilyn Allen, of the Allen O’shea Literary Agency, and to Carolyn Doyle, for her careful testing of each recipe in this guide. My endless thanks to Nigel Wright for the art direction and design of this beautiful guide, and for spending a week with us directing the photo shoots. Thanks to photographer Kevin Bertolacci for the gorgeous photos, and for being such a kind, wonderful soul, and to Food Stylist Laura Kinsey-Dolph for making each dish look perfect and being an absolute joy to cook with. A million thanks to my amazing friends who helped me in the kitchen during the shoots, especially Tamara Cook, Joe Malone, Katlin Andersen (and Baby Jack), and Gina Hyams. Thanks as well to my “volunteer taste-testers,” especially my niece, Rebecca Doherty, my siblings Kristin and Rob, and my clients, Alex and Jay, whose feedback was essential to making these recipes perfect for the omnivore’s palate. A special debt of gratitude goes to my husband, Jim, whose love and unwavering support know no bounds. This guide is for you.

Photo credits

Dorling Kindersley would like to thank the following for their kind permission to reproduce their photographs:

Airedale

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Andy Crawford

Charlotte Tolhurst

Clive Streeter

Dave King

David Munns

David Murray

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Gary Ombler

Gary Segraves

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Howard Shooter

Ian O'Leary

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Jeff Kauck

John Davis

John Freeman

Kellie Walsh

Lorenzo Vecchia

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Peter Anderson

Philip Dowell

Ranald MacKechnie

Roger Dixon

Roger Phillips

Sian Irvine

Stephen Oliver

Steve Gorton

Tony Briscoe

Will Heap

William Reavell