Urban Pantry: Tips and Recipes for a Thrifty, Sustainable and Seasonal Kitchen, with Amy Pennington

Urban Pantry is a smart, concise guide to creating a full and delicious larder in your own home. It covers kitchen essentials, like what basics to keep on hand for quick, tasty meals without a trip to the store, and features recipes that adapt old-fashioned pantry cooking for a modern audience. Avid chef and gardener Amy Pennington demystifies canning and pickling for the urban kitchen and provides tips for growing a practical food garden in even the smallest of spaces. Her more than sixty creative recipes blend both gourmet and classic flavors while keeping economy in mind.

Amy Pennington is the wise-cracking, one-woman show behind GoGo Green Garden, the edible gardening business that's got her driving all over town in a Volkswagen whose trunk is overflowing with tarps, seeds, and shovels. Pennington, who grew up on Long Island with a front yard full of goats and a back yard full of vegetables, now builds, plants, and tends edible gardens for her clients in their Seattle backyards, with a special focus on regional and native foods.  Before being on the go in the gardens, Pennington worked for years in Seattle restaurants, including time in the Tom Douglas mini-empire.