Greensward
I like rooting for the underdog, so I was going to report that Raising the Salad Bar is from a small press I’d never heard of but which does a convincing Chronicle Books knockoff: good recipes, good design.
It turns out the publisher, Lake Isle Press, puts out the collected works of Rachael Ray. So, not exactly the underdog. But Salad Bar is great. It’s a salad book that is not a health food book, and the recipes are impressively diverse:
- Steamed mussels with garlic croutons and micro-greens
- Mixed greens and radicchio salad with grilled sliced steak
- Cajun shrimp and corn salad with lime-chile dressing
- Bibb, watercress, and endive salad with pears, walnuts, and pomegranate seeds
The photos are appealing, and it’s a catchy title. If you’re looking to expand your salad repertoire, as I always am, check it out—I found it at the public library, but I’ll probably buy it.
Here’s a tip. I found out about this book through the Seattle Public Library’s new nonfiction RSS feed. Every time they put a new nonfiction book out on the shelf, it goes into the feed. This sounds unmanageable, but it’s never more than 25 books in a day, and it’s very easy to zip past titles I’m not interested in, such as this actual example from today:
The house that cleans itself by Clark, Mindy Starns. ( Harvest House Publishers ). More than a how-to book, “The House That Cleans Itself” looks at what God has to say about cleanliness and order, and how He can inspire order in every readers life in a fresh and unique way.
Libraries seem to standardize on the same software, so your library may well offer the same feature. I highly recommend it—I’ve learned about tons of great new books this way. Now I have to go do some filing, lest I be struck by lightning.
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