MADISON, WI – Terese Allen grew up in Wisconsin in a household of 12. “My family was into regional traditions like chicken booyah and Friday night fish fry, but we also got creative with ethnic and international foods. We all love to cook.”
Allen is now a renowned author of 14 cookbooks, a chronicler of Wisconsin’s culinary traditions, a local foods advocate, and a former chef. She’ll be promoting her newest book, The Dane County Farmers’ Market Cookbook: Local Foods, Global Flavors at six events in June—in Madison, Milwaukee, Egg Harbor, and Baraboo.
“I wasn’t surprised when Top Chef recently recognized the Dane County Farmers’ Market as one of the best markets in the world,” says Allen. “I’ve been shopping there—and at other Wisconsin markets—for decades. The variety and quality of food in this state are just unbelievable.”
The Dane County Farmers’ Market Cookbook: Local Foods, Global Flavors is 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, including 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, 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 Terese Allen (on the Dane County Farmers’ Market), baker Marie-Arzel Young (on the Morning Bun), and a speaker on cheesemaking and the Babcock butterfat test. At the Warner Park Community Center (Madison, WI).
§ Tuesday, June 18, 4:00 p.m. Discussion with author Terese Allen and book signing, recipe samples. 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.
