putting your vegetables in their place

john gave me a very large, thick tome on the preparation of vegetables for consumption, which includes all those weird things you see at dekalb and buford farmers markets that you wouldn't know what to do with ---

it may replace joy of cooking as my go-to cookbook

the preparatory instructions are especially excellent == e.g., "scrub the potatoes ferociously with a brush" and another to scrub the vegetable "assertively"