Guest Chefs From The Edible Garden Share Healthful And Delicious Summer Recipes

Anyone in the market for refreshing, mouth-watering, and creative summer meal ideas need look no further than The Edible Garden, an exhibition at The New York Botanical Garden that celebrates growing and preparing good food. Spotlighting locally grown, seasonal food through daily cooking demonstrations, celebrity chef appearances, four inspirational kitchen gardens, and a weekly Greenmarket, The Edible Garden, which runs through October 17, also features a hands-on vegetable gardening program for the entire family.



Celebrity chefs such as Mario Batali, Lidia Bastianich, Todd English, and others are set to present at The Edible Garden at the Botanical Garden's Conservatory Kitchen in coming weeks, following the cooking demonstrations earlier this summer by Daisy Martinez and Sara Moulton. Together with local chefs, they are demonstrating the bounty, economy, and nutritional value of edible plants through tasty dishes that are easy to prepare.



Ideal for a picnic, a potluck, or an evening gathering with friends, here are links to recipes created by Edible Garden guest chefs.

Calamari and Carrot Salad
by Michael Anthony, Executive Chef at Gramercy Tavern

BLT and Egg Pie
by Sara Moulton, TV personality and cookbook author

Barbecued Short Ribs of Beef and Sweet Corn, Fava Bean, and Fennel Salad
by Daisy Martinez, host of Food Network's Viva Daisy! and author of Daisy: Morning, Noon and Night!

Zucchini Pesto Bruschetta
by Michele DiPietro of Whole Foods Market



These and other recipes by presenting chefs appear on the Garden's Web site at http://www.nybg.org/eg/#cooking/recipes. New recipes are added each week! (Recipes may be linked to but not reprinted without permission from The New York Botanical Garden.)



Proceeds from The Edible Garden benefit the Children's Gardening program. For more information about The Edible Garden, visit www.nybg.org.