The Berkshires Farm Table Cookbook

Join us for a delicious conversation with Elise Spungen Bildner and Robert Bildner, the husband and wife co-authors of The Berkshires Farm Table Cookbook. To purchase your copy of the cookbook, click here: Books & Books. Makes a great gift!

The Berk­shire hills of west­ern Mass­a­chu­setts are famous for their unique cul­ture, from scenic views to artis­tic and lit­er­ary attrac­tions. But in addi­tion to the region’s clas­sic land­marks, the Berk­shires also boasts an impres­sive num­ber of fam­i­ly-run farms. Togeth­er with local restau­rants, these farms add anoth­er fea­ture to Berk­shires cul­ture: heart­warm­ing and home­grown food. Telling the sto­ry of fam­i­ly-run agri­cul­ture through the lan­guage of food, The Berk­shires Farm Table Cook­book offers 125 recipes to recall the mag­ic of the Berk­shire region. Although focus­ing on one region, the sto­ries of the area’s farm­ers and chefs, and the recipes, extend well beyond the Berkshires.

Elisa Spun­gen Bild­ner is a for­mer lawyer, CEO of a food com­pa­ny news­pa­per, editor/reporter (Star Ledger, Newark, NJ) and jour­nal­ism pro­fes­sor (Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ty and New York Uni­ver­si­ty). Spun­gen Bild­ner is also a pro­fes­sion­al­ly trained chef (School of Nat­ur­al Cook­ery, Boul­der, CO) and yoga instruc­tor. She grad­u­at­ed from Yale Col­lege, Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty Law School, and also has an MS in Nutrition.

Robert Bild­ner, a for­mer attor­ney, cre­at­ed and sold sev­er­al food dis­tri­b­u­tion and man­u­fac­tur­ing com­pa­nies. Bild­ner and his wife Elisa estab­lished the Foun­da­tion for Jew­ish Camp, and he serves as a lay leader on sev­er­al non­prof­it boards. He stud­ied pho­tog­ra­phy, and pho­tographed this book’s farms and restau­rants. He grad­u­at­ed from Yale Uni­ver­si­ty, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia Law School and Jew­ish The­o­log­i­cal Seminary.