Cooking with ingredients from your own region: This connects you to your homeland and teaches us to appreciate it and the fruits that grow there. The two authors demonstrate with this cookbook that you can prepare sensual and enjoyable dishes using local vegetables, wild herbs, native berries, and fruits. Are you familiar with Mairübchen, Guten Heinrich, or sea buckthorn? Simple recipes for beginners to gourmet cuisine: In this book, you will find recipes organized by seasons for days when meat is not on the menu. Gerti Epple, a specialist teacher and wild herb expert from Allgäu, along with specialist teacher Rita Brinz, aim to inspire you to cook more often in a regional, seasonal, and enjoyable vegetarian way. The organization of recipes by seasons and plant profiles will assist you in this endeavor.