With their newly released cookbook, City Harvest hopes to find a way to New Yorkers’ hearts through their stomachs. In an effort to reach more New York residents who can lend a helping hand, City Harvest just released its first-ever cookbook, City Harvest: 100 Recipes from Great New York Restaurants. Proceeds from the sale of each cookbook will go to support City Harvest’s work to help feed the nearly 1.4 million New Yorkers who face hunger each year. 
Founded in 1982 as the world’s first food rescue organization, City Harvest annually collects 55 million pounds of excess food from restaurants, groceries, bakeries, and distributes it to 500 community food programs. They deliver some 136,000 pounds of food daily,and have donated 50 million pounds this year to feed New York’s hungry.
The City Harvest cookbook goes inside the kitchens of world-famous New York restaurateurs and chefs, such as Dominique Ansel, Tom Colicchio, Daniel Humm, Anita Lo, François Payard, Marcus Samuelsson, Ivy Stark, Marc Murphy, Anne Burrell, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten. The glossy Rizzoli tome features a variety of recipes: From simple appetizers and salads to sophisticated seafood and pasta dishes to a mouth-watering collection of elaborate cocktail recipes. The cookbook’s original exclusive recipes include such culinary marvels as warm pistachio moelleux, created by one of New York’s best pastry chefs, Dominique Ansel, whose bakery is responsible for the creation of cronut.
Another distinguishing aspect of the cookbook is the inclusion of sidebar section called “Second Helpings.” In it, the famous restaurateurs give advice on how to use up a leftover dish or how to recycle leftover ingredients in a whole new other dish. For instance, if you decide to make L’Apicio’s fall inspired cocktail, Forest Fix, at your next holiday party, the mixologist suggests re-using the leftover apple syrup as sweetening for iced tea. In another recipe, Momofuku’s David Chang’s kimchi and devilled eggs become egg sandwiches the next day, and leftover kimchi is transformed into a hot dog topping.
The cookbook is available for purchase in all major bookstores and online retailers.
To learn more about City Harvest and the new cookbook, visit cityharvest.org!
