MADISON, WI – “One of the best farmers’ markets in the world!” proclaimed Top Chef about the Dane County Farmer’s Market in Madison, Wisconsin. A new cookbook by one of Wisconsin’s most celebrated food writers captures the wild variety and the passionate community of farmers, cheesemakers, and bakers, shoppers and chefs who frequent this market.
Author Terese Allen is touring eastern and southern Wisconsin this spring presenting The Dane County Farmers’ Market Cookbook: Local Foods, Global Flavors – a 258-page cookbook with recipes that features the bounty of Wisconsin small farmers from Antigo to Janesville, from Door County to Hudson. The dishes include some very Wisconsin recipes (cheese soups, strawberry rhubarb bars), enticing global dishes from Laos, Moldova, Colombia, Libya, Japan, India and more, and wonderful culinary mash-ups, like jambalaya made with landjaeger sausage or osso buco made with farm-pastured bison meat.
Allen – called Wisconsin’s “premier food writer” and “the keeper of our culinary heritage” – will be featured at these upcoming cookbook events:
§ Saturday, May 4, 8:30–10:30 a.m. Author signing with Terese Allen at the outdoor Dane County Farmers’ Market at the top of State St. on the Capitol Square (Madison, WI).
§ Saturday, May 25, 12:30–2:00 p.m. Author Terese Allen, cookbook talk and signing. Lion’s Mouth Bookstore (Green Bay, WI).
§ Saturday, June 1, 8:30–10:30 a.m. Author signing with Terese Allen at the outdoor Dane County Farmers’ Market at the top of State St. on the Capitol Square. (Madison, WI).
§ Thursday, June 6, 6:30 p.m. Author Terese Allen in conversation with Milwaukee food writer Lori Fredrich; book signing to follow. Boswell Books (Milwaukee, WI). Free event, but pre-register.
§ Sunday, June 9, 2:00 p.m. Historic Madison, Inc. presents “Madison’s Iconic Food Cultures” with speakers Terese Allen (on the Dane County Farmers’ Market), Marie-Arzel Young (on the morning bun), and Richard Daluge of the UW-Madison College of Agriculture (on cheesemaking and the Babcock butterfat test). At the Warner Park Community Center in Madison.
§ Tuesday, June 18, 4:00 p.m. Discussion with author Terese Allen and book signing. Door County Library, Egg Harbor (Egg Harbor, WI).
§ Sunday, June 30, 10 a.m.–noon. Author signing and recipe samples with Terese Allen at the Bekah Kate’s shopduring Baraboo’s monthly Sunday Market (Baraboo, WI).
The Dane County Farmers’ Market Cookbook is published by Little Creek Press in Mineral Point, Wisconsin. All profits from the sale of the cookbook benefit the Dane County Farmers’ Market.
