Simply in Season is a beautiful and useful cookbook with
more than 300 recipes interspersed with comments, facts, and reminiscences about eating seasonally, sustainable agriculture, community, and family. Recipes were contributed by people from all over the U.S. and Canada.
Arranged by season, the recipes are uncomplicated and inviting. They cover just about every type of fruit or vegetable, plus meat, dairy and grains. One particularly great aspect of these recipes is that they provide choices among ingredients. For example, the Blueberry Peach Delight can be made with water or fruit juice, brown sugar or honey, applesauce or butter. The inexperienced cook is less likely to be thwarted because he or she is missing one ingredient.
Simply in Season was commissioned by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) “to promote understanding of how the food choices we make affect our lives and the lives of those who produce the food.”  MCC is a relief, community development and peace organization of the Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches. This book is in the spirit of the famous More With Less cookbook. Simply in Season has a spiritual tone that is unusual in a cookbook, but appealing to everyone who believes that farms and food are an important part of creation.
The book is well-made, available in a lay-flat, spiral-bound edition with double-thick laminated covers. For those who can sell cookbooks at farmers’ markets or farm stands, this one is a good choice. The color photography is eye-catching, and you have to buy only five copies to get the 40% wholesale discount. For ordering information, see the ad on page 11. 