The Finger Lakes area of New York State is on the cutting edge of the regional food movement. It is home to award-winning restaurants, more than 100 wineries, and farms that produce organically grown vegetables, meats, and dairy products. This cookbook presents 110 amazing recipes that are delicious examples of how an area can produce food near where it is consumed. Many of the recipes are adaptations for family cooking of the finest creations by the area's best chefs. Featuring recipes such as the famous Dinosaur BBQ's sauce and the intriguing Tomato Pie, local flavor abounds in this niche and unique cookbook.

Kate Harvey is a sixth-generation native of the Finger Lakes region. She lives in New York City. Karl Zinsmeister is an author, a producer, a former senate aide, and the former chief domestic policy advisor to President George W. Bush from 2006 to 2009. His writing has appeared in the Atlantic and the Wall Street Journal, and he was the editor in chief of the American Enterprise, a national magazine covering politics, business, and culture. He is the author of Boots on the Ground and Dawn Over Baghdad. Noah Zinsmeister is a college student and sixth-generation native of the Finger Lakes region. They both live in Cazenovia, New York.