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Title: Diet for a Small Planet (20th Anniversary Edition) by Frances Moore Lappe ISBN: 0-345-32120-0 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.06 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonder where I've been that I missed this book till now!!??
Comment: Oh gosh what can one say about a book that is so insightful and factually sound? I commend Ms. Lappe for pulling together all the data contained in this book. She does not preach nor try to change anyone's mind. The info contained in the book reminded me of that old line "just the facts please." I believe she focused on protein because it is "lack of protein if we don't eat meat" (not vitamins, minerals, iron, etc.) that scare people about giving up meat. Ms. Lappe includes charts and facts and figures -- all kinds of information -- to reassure the reader that plant eaters can in fact get adequate protein from veggies -- minus the artery-clogging fat. Certainly, one gets plenty of vitamins and other nutients from plant/grain foods. Perhaps we bring our personal baggage along when reading such a book. I believe it is wasteful to feed grain to animals when people worldwide are starving and I doubt the earth can continue to support such wastefulness. So I welcome books such as this. Each person should think over the issues then decide. If one decides to stop eating meat or to cut back on the amount eaten, this book is loaded with information to help with food combining in the plant/grain families to make sure one will get the necessary nutrients. The recipes are included to help us along, and I will be referring to them and this book often in the coming weeks (or months!) Ms. Lappe's philosophy gets 5 stars too. I highly recommend this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Probably the best single book on things vegetarian
Comment: At the time of the first edition, this book was the best thought out and researched of all. The concept of protein complements, among others, is crucial to making a vegetarian diet work for any length of time. I tried to work with several others, and still have their books which I use occasionally. This one has stuck we me over three continents and as many decades. In times when I wasn't totally vegetarian it still provided a welcome change and a reminder that I wasn't reliant on the local meat market. Of all the books this has the philosophy and practicality to stay with one as a viable guide to a vegetarian lifestyle.
With this edition my wife and children have discovered, for quite different reasons (one from concerns about ecology, pollution, additives, GMOs, etc., the other from a more 'economic manipulation of peoples food habits' as well as nutrition) this book once again and found it as relevant now. They were thunderstruck to see my yellowed, fingermarked, and well-worn, copies with notes of variations I had tried. The beauty of the open-ended concept here is understated, but crucial. It has given us a stronger nutritional base as well as contributed to our growth as a family.
For someone new to this area this contains some of the most sound nutritional, philosophical, and economic, reasoning I've seen in print. Over time it becomes quite easy to adapt conventional recipes to the methodology in this book. As a guide for your cuisine and your life it is very good indeed.
Rating: 3
Summary: Isn't it ironic?
Comment: I haven't seen this cookbook in years, but today I went into a "whole foods supermarker" to look for an item that isn't carried by my regular grocery chain, and seeing all the organic stuff carried me back on a nostalgic trip to the late 1970s. I was living in a group house on a farm-like piece of land, and my housemates and I were playacting at the hippie lifestyle. So, it was brown rice and tofu and compost heaps all the way, and this cookbook was a staple of the house.
As I recall, the dishes that resulted from most of those recipes ended up tasting fairly foul, but we pretended it didn't matter; instead, we'd say that they tasted "earthy". hahaha.
The premise of this book was that there were a very limited amount of resources on the earth, and by eating meat we Americans were consuming more than "our fair share", at the expense of others in the Third World. Well, we now know differently. There's more than enough food to feed everyone on earth (and the population has practically doubled in the last 30 years!). Sure, there are many people who are hungry, but that is largely due to political and economic circumstances.
Instead, the most pressing public health issue worldwide is...Ta Da! AN EPIDEMIC OF OBESITY!! Who would have imagined it?? Certainly not all the shrill chicken-little types in the 60s and 70s who were screaming that we'd all be starving in the future, or at least eating Soylent Green.
And we also know that protein is not even that necessary - certainly a portion is required in the diet, but too much is overkill, and is not needed by the body (or may even be harmful). So, forget about trying to make another extra serving of protein - instead, the healthiest thing to do is to refrain from consuming too many refined carbohydrates.
Too much of anything is bad. Alfalfa sprouts - those used to be the "golden touch" of health food, but if you eat those in excess, it can cause health problems. (Just try to feed a cow an all-alfalfa hay diet, and prepare for a hefty vet bill!)
Yes, this book is nice and quaint, but it's an anachronism. Oh, and forget about it being "cheap" to base your diet on a lot of dairy products - the prices on those are shooting through the roof now (mid-2004), and soon a hunk of plain domestic cheese will cost more than the equivalent amount of prime beef.
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Title: Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe, Anna Lappe ISBN: 1585422371 Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 24 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Recipes for a Small Planet by Ellen B. Ewald ISBN: 0345324927 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1983 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: World Hunger: Twelve Myths by Frances Moore Lappe, Joseph Collins, Peter Rosset, Institute for Food and Development Policy ISBN: 0802135919 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World by John Robbins, Dean Ornish MD ISBN: 1573247022 Publisher: Conari Press Pub. Date: 11 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth by John Robbins ISBN: 0915811812 Publisher: H.J. Kramer Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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