Plum Gorgeous: Recipes and Memories from the Orchard
"Fruits that are bright, colorful and downright PLUM GORGEOUS star as the ingredients in Romney Steele's delectable ode to orchard fare." --More Magazine"A love letter to California's delicious fruit,  with artful type, charming photographs, whimsical drawings and  lots of  fun  recipes." --Santa Rosa Press-Democrat"A beautiful love letter to stone fruit at the prime of ripeness, complete with stories from the orchard, little poems and proverbs singing their praises, and of course, lavishly illustrated and elegant seasonal fruit recipes for both sweet and savory dishes." --Serious Eats"As romantic...as it is practical and inspiring.... Plum Gorgeous will make you want to find the best fruits of the season and include them with every meal of the day." --Seattle Weekly blog Cooking the Books"If a cookbook can be romantic, this one surely is. 'Plum Gorgeous' is the essence of simplicity and yet one of the most sophisticated books to cross our desks this year." --The Oregonian"Charming memories are interspersed with mouthwatering photographs of an artsy, old-fashioned nature and inspiring sweet and savory recipes covering all the seasons...lovely." --The Post and Courier, Charleston, SC"The recipes are wonderfully imaginative, appealing, easy to follow, and utilize fruit for all parts of a meal." --Kitchen GadgetGalsWhile Plum Gorgeous is first and foremost a cookbook, filled with 60 super-seasonal recipes, with such beautiful photographs and food styling, as well as extensive headnotes to the recipes, it feels like much more than the average cookbook. Steele captures a time and place in her own life - and fills the book with such a clear aesthetic sense - that a mere cookbook jumps into the world of the truly aspirational. We, too, would like to sit around her table, lathering raspberry rhubarb rose petal jam on everything in sight. --localfoods.about.com