Description: Healthy, hearty, and versatile, whole and ancient grains are fast becoming staples in kitchens everywhere. In this comprehensive guide, Cooking Light Executive Food Editor and James Beard Award-winning author Ann Taylor Pittman gives readers amazing ways to make the most of ingredients such as farro, kamut, amaranth, barley, millet, einkorn, sorghum, and more.
This book reinvents how we cook with grains. Ann offers recipes that have us popping and crisping them for texture, creaming them for soups, and using them in sublime, miraculously guilt-free desserts. Everyday Whole Grains covers the essentials on each grain and features 175 flavorful dishes from savory breakfasts, stews, and casseroles, to foolproof pizzas and breads. With over 100 gorgeous photographs and detailed nutritional information for every recipe, Everyday Whole Grains is as inspiring as it is authoritative and a must-have for food lovers and health-conscious eaters alike.Brief description: Ann Taylor Pittman is the executive food editor of Cooking Light magazine. She is co-author of Cooking Light's The New Way to Cook Light, which won a 2013 James Beard Foundation Cookbook Award, and she is a James Beard Journalism Award recipient for her article "Mississippi Chinese Lady Goes Home to Korea." She lives in Birmingham, AL, with her husband, twin sons, and two dogs.