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revolution in cooking

My own turn-around came when I read a review of Frances Moore Lappe's book "Diet for a Small Planet" in the Farm Bureau Journal.  (My husband I were Farm Bureau members because that was a way for us to get group health insurance, and we qualified then, having 7 fruit/nut trees on our one-eighth acre town lot.) I had always been a "from scratch" cook, and was even raised to cook and eat nutritious, tasty, whole-grain food.  However, Lappe's book taught me so much more about diet, balance, and how to assess what we eat and how to plan my family's meals. She also opened my eyes about the politics of what we eat, and how, on a family kitchen basis, we can BE informed citizens of the world.  (My children, now adults, are conscious cooks themselves - but still tease me about Lappe's carob cake I used to make : no substitute for the real thing, I learned!!)          On How a cookbook renaissance heated up the sustainable-food movement posted 2 years, 9 months ago 18 Responses