Here's a must-have for all home cooks and food lovers! The 250+ recipes in this collection show the incredible range of tasty vegetables available from Canada's farmers' fields, gardens, markets, and stores. There are delicious vegetable mains, like Curried Harvest Vegetables with Lentils and Portobello Burgers, and enjoyable sides, like Kale Chips, Shredded Sprouts Sautéed with Pancetta, Beet and Stilton Salad, and Fiddleheads Sautéed with Morels.

A household name on the Canadian food scene for over three decades, Rose Murray is respected for her knowledge of the country's food from farm to table. During her travels across Canada to learn about the country's food and culinary traditions first-hand, she has fished for salmon off Vancouver Island, enjoyed fall suppers in northern Saskatchewan, gathered wild rice in northern Ontario, picked berries on the Gaspe and on Cape Breton Island, and dug for clams on Prince Edward Island.

Rose Murray's first vegetable cookbook was published in 1983 with 150 recipes. This new cookbook includes many recipes from that earlier book, revised and updated, plus more than 100 new recipes. Every recipe in this collection has been carefully tested for home cooks.

Rose Murray has been a key player in the Canadian food scene for almost three decades. Through authoring 10 cookbooks, writing for a host of magazines and newspapers, teaching cuisine at various colleges and cooking schools, and making many television and radio appearances, Rose has helped shape Canada’s culinary landscape since 1979. Growing up on a self-sustaining mixed farm near Collingwood, Ontario, Rose learned the art of growing your own food, as well as cooking and preserving it, at a very young age. It is no wonder that she has come to be considered a national expert on the agricultural traditions that go into our food. After finishing a degree in English from Trinity College at the University of Toronto, Rose went on to teach high school English. Over the years, food started to become a serious interest for Rose again, which led her to more formal food studies in Paris at renowned cooking schools such as Cordon Bleu, La Varenne and Ecole de Gastronomie Francaise Ritze-Escoffier. Rose also took classes in Costa Rica, Hong Kong and Thailand further developing her knowledge and understanding of international food and culture. Back in Canada, Rose has traveled across the country studying Canada’s culinary landscape. From fishing for salmon off Vancouver Island, B.C. and partaking in fall suppers in Saskatchewan to gathering wild rice in Ontario and digging for clams on Prince Edward Island, Rose has experienced what makes up Canada’s culinary fabric first hand. She has channeled this knowledge into her books A Taste of Canada and Canada's Favourite Recipes (out Fall 2012). Rose has two grown children and two grandchildren and now lives in Cambridge, Ontario with her husband Kent.

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"Rose Murrays newest book contains over 250 tried and true recipes ranging from homey to dinner party-worthy, all in an easy peasy alphabetical format."

The Tomato

"At a time when farmers' markets and eating local are on the upswing and at a time of year when the first baskets of community supported agriculture produce are being delivered, this cookbook offers a welcome and delicious answer to the question of what to do with vegetables of all types."

Waterloo Region Record