| | |  | Home Decor | Home » » Cool Cuisine: Taking The Bite Out of Global Warming | | | | | | | Description: | | Cool Cuisine is a smorgasbord of scientific fact and culinary art where the reader learns new ways to look at the climate crisis. It presents the full cycle on how our agrochemical food system affects global warming and how global warming affects the food system. It inspires personal life changes with in-depth research, easy recipes, ideas for your next book group "read and eat" tasting party, and simple tips on how to cook a global-cooling cuisine. The book is organized into three sections: the first gives background to the global-warming problem, the second highlights solutions, and the third is a "culinary how-to," teaching simple techniques and tips. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Laura Stec | | Paperback:
| 256 pages | | Publisher:
| Gibbs Smith | | Publication Date:
| September 10, 2008 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1423603923 | | Package Length:
| 9.7 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 17 reviews |
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go green at your kitchen!Jul 12, 2010
A practical guide and an excellent source for those who try to go green at home including information on global warming and how you can help to reduce it, starting at your kitchen.
Great book!Mar 29, 2010
This is the best book about the impact our food has on our environment since John Robbins' Diet for a New America. By combining a passionate voice with rational scientific underpinnings the result is truly inspiring. People that really care about realistic ways to moderate their impact should take the time to read this book.
 Ideas and Recipes for changing your DietFeb 02, 2010
Thinking about the links between food choices and environmental concerns? Stymied by all the choices? Organic vs. Free Range? Organic and Free Range? Local vs. Organic? What about Organic Agro-business? What about Food Miles? This book lays out the link between food production and global climate change, but more importantly, it provides recipes and ideas for some sustainable food choices. Whether you're interested in changing your diet or just interested in food production, this book will interest you, without making you feel guilty. Hopefully it will inspire you with its delicious and sustainable recipes.
OK, so there are a few sections that could have been better edited, or even eliminated. (I really could have done without the recounting of a silly conversation about cow reproduction on pg. 202. I guess you had to be there to think it was funny or even interesting?) There are many many boxes and sidebars -- sometimes this makes the overall book organizationally confusing, but the content in the side boxes is so interesting and they contain graphs, charts, lists that are clear and easy to understand.
All in all an interesting book and unlike any other I have seen, since it contains both the WHY you would want to change your food habits and the HOW to go about doing it.
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My God, somebody gets it!Jun 10, 2009
If timing is everything then this book is gets it. It is Informative with fantastic dishes. My family of four uses Ms. Stec's recipes once a week without fail.
The two authors have combined both science and food that has left me wondering why I have been in the dark for so long. We can make a difference with the right choices!
Give the book a try, you won't be disappointed.
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Being involved again in our foodApr 27, 2009
Reading this book made me want to get involved with food again, much like we all did as kids - touch it, play with it, experience the textures, color and energy of it. Author Laura Stec is anything but preachy. She's as earthy as the worms in her compost bin and accentuates the positive. She makes buying and eating responsibly sound fun and doable...without a lot of extra work or sacrifice. I'm for that!
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