James Beard Award-winning and Top Chef finalist chef Sarah Grueneberg has a secret to share: fruits and vegetables are singing loudly around you, begging you to take them home and try something new. Are you listening? Some are asking to be put in salads, yes. But what does this asparagus want you to do with it? What does it like to be paired with? In this incredible exploration of seasonal produce, Grueneberg offers insights, techniques, and recipes to truly get the best out of your vegetables so they can take center stage at the dinner table—how and when to shop for, cook, season, and seamlessly incorporate potatoes, squash, beans, greens, mushrooms, peppers, and more. Each of the 15 chapters focus on a vegetable (or fruit, depending on your definition), except one devoted entirely to pastas, drawing on Sarah’s long love affair with Italian cooking and the methods that she uses at her renowned restaurant, Monteverde. This elemental cookbook on vegetable focused cooking offers more than 180 impressive yet surprisingly achievable recipes.