New Cookbook: "the Hamptons & Long Island Homegrown Cookbook" By Leeann Lavin

THE HAMPTONS AND LONG ISLAND
HOMEGROWN COOKBOOK
Local Food, Local Restaurants, Local Recipes by Leeann Lavin
Photographs by Jennifer Calais Smith
& Lindsay Smith

Good food is locally grown food. It is seasonal, it is sustainable, and it is farm fresh. These attributes are the currency of the chefs and restaurants featured in the book. Each culinary artist cultivates a reverence for delicious and creative Hamptons and Long Island menu offerings. Author Leeann Lavin tells the good-food stories of farmers who rise before the roosters to bring fresh produce, meats, and cheeses, honey, and seafood to these local chefs and area farmers' markets. She profiles Long Island's best pasture-to-plate chefs who kick off the day with an early trip to the markets & local growers and wrap it up in the wee hours of the night, after feeding loyal or legions or scores of appreciative diners. The food stories are lovingly told -- exploring the work and passion of the chefs and the local food artisans, farmers, and fisherman ,who together, are dedicated to connecting to the land to produce menus that boast delicious homegrown flavors. The book offers a rare and intimate tour of the kitchens and gardens that go into creating local, seasonal food.

Brimming with food stories from the region's best real-food chefs and the growers who inspire their homegrown menus, more than 80 tempting recipes, and stunning photographs of the iconic dishes, authentic & sustainable ingredients, and the majestic land and seascapes that are the romantic hallmarks of the area's food culture.

THE HAMPTONS AND LONG ISLAND HOMEGROWN COOKBOOK (Voyageur Press, June 2012, $30.00 US/$33.00 CAN, hard cover with color photos) celebrates the best homegrown food in and around the Empire State's gorgeous Long Island shoreline, profiling 27 chefs who work together with local farms to bring the freshest, locally grown, sustainable foods to their menus. The book is organized by region and presents more than 80 delicious recipes. Featured chefs include:
- Cuvee Bistro and Bar, Greenporter Hotel, Chef Deborah Pittorino
- Jedediah Hawkins Inn, Chef Keith Luce
- Loaves and Fishes, Chef Anna Pump
- North Fork Table & Inn, Chefs Claudia Fleming and Gerry Hayden
- Southfork Kitchen, Chef Joe Isidori
- Starr Boggs, Chef Starr Boggs
- Vine Street Cafe, Chef Terry Harwood and Pastry Chef Lisa Harwood
- 18 Bay, Chefs Elizabeth Ronzetti and Chef Adam Kopels
- The Frisky Oyster, Chef Robby Beaver
- The Living Room at the Maidstone Inn, Chef James Carpenter
- Fresno, Chef Gretchen Menser
- 1770 House, Chef Kevin Penner
- Foody's, Chef Bryan Futerman
- Almond Restaurant, Chef Jason Weiner
- The Lake House, Chef Matt Connors
- Mitch & Toni's, Chef Mitch SuDock
- The Grey Horse Tavern, Chef Meredith Machemer

Sampling the recipes in THE HAMPTONS AND LONG ISLAND HOMEGROWN COOKBOOK made with incredibly fresh ingredients will turn locals into at-home prot�g�s of favorite Hamptons and Long Island chefs and will give readers from afar a taste of New York's finest outside of Manhattan.


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 gar