Becky Selengut – författare

Chef and cooking teacher Becky Selengut's Shroom feeds our enduring passion for foraged and wild foods by exploring 15 types of mushrooms, including detailed how-to's on everything home cooks need to know to create 75 inventive, internationally-flavoured mushroom dishes.The button mushroom better make room on the shelf. We're seeing a growing number of supermarkets displaying types of mushrooms that are leaving shoppers scratching their heads. Home cooks are buying previously obscure species from growers and gatherers at local farmers markets and adventurous cooks are collecting all manners of edible mushrooms in the woods. People are asking the question, "Now that I have it, what do I do with it?" Home cooks and chefs alike will need a book and an educated guide to walk them through the basics of cooking everything from portobellos and morels to chanterelles and the increasingly available, maitake, oyster, and beech mushrooms.Shroom is that book and Chef Becky Selengut is that tour guide. In a voice that's informed, but friendly and down-to-earth, Selengut's Shroom is a book for anyone looking to add mushrooms to their diet, find new ways to use mushrooms as part of a diet trending towards less meat, or diversify their repertoire with mushroom-accented recipes inspired from Indian, Thai, Vietnamese and Japanese cuisines, among others. Recipes include Maitake Tikka Masala, King Trumpet and Tomato Sandwiches with Spicy Mayo, and Hedgehog Mushrooms and Cheddar Grits with Fried eggs and Tabasco Honey. Written in a humorous voice, Becky Selengut guides the home cook through 15 species-specific chapters on mushroom cookery with the same levity and expertise she brought to the topic of sustainable seafood in her IACP-nominated 2011 book Good Fish. Selengut's wife and sommelier April Pogue once again teams up to provide wine pairings for each of the 75 recipes.

Your new go-to guide to shaking up your salads for maximum flavor impactMove over, basic iceberg lettuce with ranch dressing; the world is tired of your sad, restrictive, and out-of-season leaves and ready for vibrant texture, diverse ingredients, and riotous color and texture. This cookbook focuses on the pure joy of protein-rich dinner salads in all their forms—asking, “What even is a salad?” (The answer, of course, is you can’t pin salad down! You must surrender to its ineffability.) With 50 recipes de-emphasizing a greens-based salad (think dense bean salads and taco salads!), plenty of wry humor and wordplay, protein counts of each recipe backed by a nutritionist, 35 full-color photos, and humorous margin doodles, author Becky Selengut (Misunderstood Vegetables) brings lightness and fun to a once-derided mainstay of the dinner table. Chapters include:Groundwork (classics with a twist)Salt and vinegar potato salad with dill pickles and potato chipsCobb Salad with Katsu TofuMobilize (transport-friendly salads that get better with time)Chickpea chopped salad with chorizo, olives, almonds, fennel, piquillos and sherry vinegar dressingGrilled Chicken and Charred Corn with Lime, Chili, Cilantro, and CotijaRevolution (outside-the-box, or bag, salads)Buffalo Cauliflower, Chickpea, and Tempeh Salad with Red Cabbage and Blue Cheese DressingJewish Deli Salad with Pickled Beets, Lox, Dill, Capers, Bagel Croutons, and Everything SpiceGet Dressed (mix-and-match dressings)Roasted shallot vinaigrette with balsamicGreenest Goddess dressingTop That! (easy, crunchy, chewy, texturally contrasting toppers)Crispy Spiced ChickpeasShiitake Mushroom “Bacon”

Maybe you just discovered celeriac, at the grocery. Or perhaps you received watermelon radishes in an Abel & Cole package. Did a parsnip catch your eye at the farmers’ market? Even vegetables you think you know, like cabbage or Brussels sprouts, will reveal next-level flavour with the right recipe. Becky Selengut has made it her mission to take less popular—or even outright scorned vegetables like okra—and cook them into irresistible dishes. It’s all about knowing how to cook or serve them and what herbs and spices to incorporate. In Misunderstood Vegetables, Selengut highlights 25 vegetables, with recipes alongside history, step-by-step preparation and storage tips. Organised by season, recipes include Feta and Citrus Salad and Charred Chard with Spicy Chile Oil. A must-have for the plant-curious, this cookbook will have readers seeking out unusual and underused produce like never before.