Melissa's Introduces 'DYPs: Dutch Yellow Potatoes The Perfect Everyday Potato Cookbook'

Los Angeles, CA – Melissa’s Produce adds another interesting and informative specialty cookbook to the company’s series, each devoted to one fresh ingredient. The Dutch Yellow® Potato (DYP™) is the perfect cooking potato with its creamy texture, buttery flavor and year-round availability.

Since the DYP™ is available twelve months of the year, the consistency of this year-round supply is what this cookbook celebrates. There are 154 recipes, grouped according to the four seasons of the year, incorporating the fresh harvests of the day to enhance, support and combine with the DYP™.

The SPRING recipe group consists of an array of fresh salad ideas that marry the DYP™ with the first leafy greens of the harvest season as well as other early spring crops.  SUMMER is all about grilling recipes as well as a selection of potato salads that could fill several picnic tables. A hearty fare is the theme of the FALL section of DYP™ recipes; lots of warming soups, creamy mashed dishes and some deliciously creative purées. The WINTER potato recipes reflect the season with slow-cooked stews, gratins and oven roasting.

The hardcover DYP™ Cookbook is a great addition to any home chef’s reference collection and the perfect gift for the gourmet potato aficionado.  The book’s Introduction includes an interesting historical recounting of potato culinary history. The stunning and instructive dish photography captures each recipe so perfectly that the reader can almost taste each dish on paper!

The Dutch Yellow® Potato is grown exclusively for Melissa’s by our grower-partner in the Magic Valley region of Southern Idaho. DYPs™ remain dense and moist when cooked; the variety also cooks a lot quicker than other kinds of potatoes. The naturally small and uniform size of the Dutch Yellow® is another characteristic that makes the variety a useful culinary tool.

Easy to navigate and understand, this information packed book is written by food experts, Sharon Hernandez and Chef Ida Rodriguez of Melissa’s Produce.  This cookbook is made available in hardbound and also softbound editions nationally.  Order the hardbound from Melissa’s Produce at 800-588.0151 or www.melissas.com.

Melissa’s Produce is the leading U.S. distributor of variety produce. The company imports exotic fruits and vegetable from around the world.

Source: Melissa’s Produce