Bi-Rite Market’s Eat Good Food is a book written by Sam Mogannam and Dabney Gough. This book is a grocer’s guide to shopping, cooking and creating a sense of community through food. This book is really a shopping guide and cookbook compiled in one. Chef Sam Mogannam is also the owner of San Francisco’s Bi-Rite Market. In this book he takes you through a grocery store focusing on one department at a time. This book will tell you how to find great ingredients, read labels, build up the perfect pantry and connect with those that provide our food.
Bi-Rite Market’s Eat Good Food includes over 90 recipes that you can prepare using your newfound knowledge learned from this book. This versatile book can be a help to you no matter where you live or where you grocery shop. Bi-Rite Market’s Eat Good Food will show you how to get the absolute best results from the foods you buy. This book teaches you how to cook, but it starts with the very beginner process of teaching you how to shop for the right ingredients.
PRO
Educates you on both shopping and cooking
Includes 90 recipes
Book is written by a chef and second generation grocery store owner
Walks you through each department in the grocery store
Tips and advice work no matter where you shop
Promotes reading food labels
Details how to shop for, prepare and store several common ingredients
Focuses on using local ingredients
CON
None to speak of
DIET and NUTRITION
Bi-Rite Market’s Eat Good Food focuses on using the best ingredients possible through using sustainable foods and supporting local farmers and producers. It is suggested that you shop as low on retail chain as possible. This includes going to farmer’s markets, cooperatives, natural food stores and local independent grocery stores. If you shop at a large grocery chain store and they don’t carry the type of ingredients used in the book, simply ask for better products. Some other recommendations offered are to avoid genetically modified organisms, use all of your senses when you cook and be spontaneous. This book can help save you calories and money. It is suggested that you repurpose leftovers so that food doesn’t get wasted. You will learn how to buy beans, chocolate, coffee, tea and other items that come from the middle aisles of the store. With each item you are given information on how to store and use these products. Bi-Rite Market’s Eat Good Food offers the ultimate information for those that want to start cooking and eating better. The entire grocery store is broken down by each section having a chapter in the book. The sections covered include:
The Grocery
The Deli
The Produce Department
The Butcher Counter
The Dairy Case
The Cheese Department
The Bakery
Wine and Beer
This book also includes 90 recipes that are cooked in the Bi-Rite Market. These recipes use natural and locally grown ingredients. They also include the use of things that are minimally processed. Some of the delicious recipes included in Bi-Rite Market’s Eat Good Foodare listed below.
Hummus
Romesco Sauce
Winter Lentil Salad with Roasted Root Veggies
Citrus Olive Oil Cake
Braised Beef Cheek with Lobster Mushrooms
Grilled Bread Salad with Tomatoes and Parmigiano
Giant Pork Roast with Tangy Carolina Slaw
Ginger-Lemongrass Chicken Skewers with Spicy Peanut Dipping Sauce
EXERCISE
Bi-Rite Market’s Eat Good Food is a book focused on shopping for, preparing and storing the best foods available. There is no exercise recommendation provided.
CONCLUSION
Shopping for healthy ingredients is the first step in making a healthy meal. Bi-Rite Market’s Eat Good Food offers you guidance through this process as well as some good recipes you can make with the ingredients you buy. This book is based on shopping at the Bi-Rite Market in San Francisco, but the techniques and advice will work no matter where you by food. This book is a great tool filled with good information that can help anyone eat better with just a few easy steps.
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