Recipes utilizing spring vegetables
Photo credit: Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton | The spring garden hodgepodge from Deborah Madison's "Vegetable Literacy."
After months of cooking with vegetables shipped in from warmer climes (or plucked from the freezer), we're seeing the first asparagus, peas and other good green things of spring.
To make the most of the season's bounty, we turn to Deborah Madison, poet laureate of American vegetarians, whose newest book, "Vegetable Literacy" (Ten Speed Press, $40), is her richest to date.
Taking a plant's-eye...