I want to thank NetGalley and Alfred A Knopt, a division of Penguin House Publishing for the ARC of The Cook’s Garden by Kevin West in exchange for an honest review.

Kevin West uses his knowledge of gardening to inspire and inform others who want to create a garden. In one beginning chapter, Kevin writes that when starting a garden, you should look at the garden as an extension of the recipes you make. This line as simple as it is really made me stop and think about how true it is and how I can create a garden that can be more reflective of my cooking needs. The book has chapters that introduce gardeners to the growing zones, soil conditions, watering, different vegetables to grow, recipes and more. I think this book is a great tool for beginner gardeners and will help the readers create a more successful, wasteless garden that you can eat.

Lots of info! As someone who dreams of a big garden and cooking/preserving from said garden (though I must admit I mostly excel at growing weeds), this book provides so much info, both in regards to cooking as well as recipes. The recipes are unique compared to what I usually see in gardening books with recipes. Definitely looking forward to the final product!

This seems like an excellent book. It was a little tricky to read because the kindle version (my preferred way of reading books to review) is formatted badly and there are letters missing in many words and things are all jumbled together. In addition, the ARC for both the Kindle version and the netgalley version is only the first half of the book. I generally will not publicly review a book if I’m unable to review the whole thing.

Since this does seem to be an exceptional guide, I may review it after next week. I am taking part in the boycott of Amazon and its products (which includes goodreads) during the week of march 7-14. As I said, I generally will not publicly review any book that is only released as a partial ARC but what I read seemed far better than most.