Urban Pantry is a smart, concise guide to creating a full and delicious larder in your own home. It covers kitchen essentials, like what basics to keep on hand for quick, tasty meals without a trip to the store, and features recipes that adapt old-fashioned pantry cooking for a modern audience. Avid chef and gardener Amy Pennington demystifies canning and pickling for the urban kitchen and provides tips for growing a practical food garden in even the smallest of spaces. Her more than sixty creative recipes blend both gourmet and classic flavors while keeping economy in mind, and include:

Whole Grain Bread
Indian-Pickled Carrots
Herbal Minestrone
Apricot Chickpea Salad
White Bean &Lemon Salad /br Over Easy with Tomato & Chocolate-Buttermilk Cake
Toasted Almond Crackers
Potato Gratin with Cashew Cream
Walnut & Chicken
Fig & Batidos
Milk-Braised Pork Shoulder with Sage
Rhubarb Jam
Boozy Blood Orange Marmalade

Urban Pantry holds sustainability at its center: Take advantage of local ingredients, eliminate wasteful kitchen practices, and make the most out of the food you buy or grow.