American Grown By Michelle OBAMA

In her first Cookbook, American Grown, Mrs. Michelle Obama invites you inside the White House Kitchen Garden & shares its inspiring story, from the first planting to the latest harvest. Listen to about her worries as a novice gardener would the new plants even grow? Learn about her struggles & her joys as lettuce, corn, tomatoes, collards & kale, sweet potatoes & rhubarb flourished in the freshly tilled soil. Get an unprecedented behind the scenes look at every season of the garden growth, with striking original photographs that bring its story to life. Try the distinctive recipes created by top White House cooks & made with ingredients freshly-picked from the White House garden. & learn from the White House Garden team about the way you can help plant your own yard, school or community garden.

Michelle Obama days continues across the nation, sharing the tales of other gardens that have moved & inspired her. Here are the tales of a contemporary day vegetable truck that brings fresh produce to underserved communities in Chicago, of Houston office workers who make the sidewalk bloom, of a New York City School that created a scented garden for the visually weakened, of a North Carolina garden that devotes its whole harvest to those less blessed, & other tales of communities that are transforming the lives & health of their citizens.

With American Grown, Michelle tells the story of the White House Kitchen Garden, celebrates the bounty of our nation, & reminds us all of what they can grow together.