Includes index

Spice mixtures and condiments -- Za'atar -- Cumin salt -- Chile lime salt -- Niloufer's masala -- Nico's pork seasoning -- Espelette hot sauce -- Red wine vinegar -- Apple peel cider vinegar -- Tahini -- Nuts -- Slow-roasted nuts with sage leaves -- Almond paste -- Noyau extract -- Almond milk -- Chocolate nut bark -- Beans and other legumes -- Beans cooked over the fire -- White bean crostini -- Hummus with preserved lemon -- Lentil soup -- Savory preserves -- Tomato confit -- Roasted tomato sauce -- Roasted eggplant caponata -- Nana's chile -- All-purpose pickling brine -- Pickled young ginger -- Pickled sweet peppers -- Pickled wild mushrooms -- Quick garlicky dill pickles -- Zucchini pickles -- Salt-preserved kumquats -- Dried fig leaves -- Whole grains -- Corn tortillas -- Multigrain porridge -- Fanny's superfood granola -- The many uses of cooked brown rice -- Brown rice and herb salad -- Buckwheat buttermilk crelpes -- Oat pancakes -- Whole-wheat flatbreads -- Pita bread -- Preserved fish and meat -- Sardines escabeche -- Salted fish -- Brandade -- Marinated anchovies -- Gravlax -- Tuna confit -- Rendering fat: lard, duck fat, and ghee -- Duck leg confit -- Beef broth -- Chicken stock -- Cheese -- Making fresh cheese -- Farmer's cheese -- Ricotta -- Chelvre -- Yogurt -- Labneh -- Crelme fraiche -- Sweet preserves -- Raspberry syrup -- Candied rose petals or mint leaves -- Quince and apple paste -- Candied citrus peel -- Panforte -- Crab apple jelly -- Mary Jo's brandied cherries -- Preserved apricots in syrup -- Mia's vin d'orange -- Vin de pelche (peach leaf apelritif) -- Vanilla extract -- Lovage syrup