WRITTEN BY NORA RICE AND JENNA RICE
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JENNA RICE
PUBLISHED BY HATHERLEIGH PRESS, LTD., 2025
In our Holiday 2025 issue, Maria Buteux Reade wrote a review on The Vermont Farm to Table Cookbook: Over 50 Fresh & Local Recipes for Every Season. Earthy. Real. Unfussy. Intriguing. Maria used these adjectives to describe both this cookbook as well as the two sisters who created it. The concept: develop recipes featuring exclusively Vermont-grown ingredients, except for olive oil, salt, and pepper. The sisters believe that “You can’t grow everything in Vermont, but you can grow everything you need.” The absolute and simple truth of this statement found in the introduction captures the joyful spirit of this book.
We received so much great feedback on this cookbook and even testdrove many of its recipes ourselves that we thought we would share a couple more winter dishes.
According to Jenna Rice, co-author and photographer, “It’s been gratifying to hear from folks who love to cook and garden and say they feel like we looked in their pantry and wrote this book specifically for them. That indicates we hit a sweet spot that resonates.” Nora Rice, Jenna’s sister and co-author, shares her thoughts: “We just wanted to inspire people to cook using common ingredients that can be grown right here in Vermont.”
