"the Hamptons & Long Island Homegrown Cookbook" Hits Bookstores

Celebrate Eat Drink Local New York with local chefs, farmers and food.

Following its debut as the publisher's most successful pre-order, sold through the online booksellers Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Voyagurpress.com, the long-anticipated THE HAMPTONS AND LONG ISLAND HOMEGROWN COOKBOOK is now available at bookstores.

The Hamptons & Long Island Homegrown Cookbook celebrates the distinctive cuisine of a homegrown Hamptons lifestyle with profiles on the region's best pasture-to-plate and fin-to-fork chefs who are dedicated to the land, and to using locally grown, seasonal ingredients to produce delicious homegrown menus that boast unparalleled, delicious flavor and taste.
From the honey farmer to oyster farmer to veggie, duck and mushroom grower, the Hamptons & Long Island Homegrown Cookbook brims with food stories about the artisanal food producers who inspire the 27-featured homegrown chefs.
More than 100 tempting recipes and stunning photographs of the iconic dishes, authentic and sustainable ingredients, and the majestic land and seascapes that are the romantic hallmarks of the area's cuisine-obsessed culture, the book is equal parts foodie narrative, gardening photo spread, travelogue, entertaining, and easy and delicious cookbook guide.

About the Author

Leeann Lavin has worked in restaurants and food catering and cooks with passion, using food ingredients from local NYC Greenmarkets and her herb and farm-ette in the Garden State. She writes a Food & Drink column for Examiner.com, curating the food spectrum that dazzles and elevates the radical New York food world. She writes two blogs. "Master Chefs and their Gardens" chronicles the making of the book, "The Hamptons & Long Island Homegrown Cookbook," as well as the nexus of garden art and culinary art, food events, lectures, Greenmarkets, growers, cookbook reviews, and food stories. "Garden Glamour" is the little black dress for gardeners, highlighting best practices, lectures, garden book reviews, romantic and glamorous gardens and insouciant anecdotes about the humbling world of gardening. For the past five-plus years, Leeann was the Director of Communications at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. As principal of Duchess Designs, LLC, Leeann is an award-winning landscape designer. Her garden book reviews have appeared in The Two River Times and the Wall Street Journal.


About the Photographers

Jennifer Calais Smith is a New York City-based photographer specializing in architecture, food, gardens, travel, and interiors. Her work has been published in Architectural Record, Town & Country, and Metropolis, as well as on Food&Wine.com, among others.
Born and raised in a suburb of Detroit, Lindsay Morris is a photographer and artist living on the East End of Long Island. After a decade of studying and working in fine art photography, she spent the next decade designing and producing her own line of women's clothing that took her all over the world. In 2006, she made her way back to her original passion in photography and has held the position of photo editor of Edible East End magazine for the past five years. She is the mother of two boys who help her tend their backyard garden.

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THE HAMPTONS AND LONG ISLAND HOMEGROWN COOKBOOK
Local Food, Local Restaurants, Local Recipes
by Leeann Lavin with photographs by Jennifer Calais Smith & Lindsay Morris
Voyageur Press
June 2012
$30.00 US / $33.00 CAN
Trade Hard Cover Original
ISBN-13: 978-0-76033-757-8