The Conscious Kitchen: The New Way to Buy and Cook Food - to Protect the Earth, Improve Your Heal...
Your everyday food choices can change the world—and make meals taste better than ever
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Jan 17, 2012
Dana
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This is a very enlightening book. Also a little frightening to me. It gives great ideas on what foods to eat only organic and which things are ok if not organic. It explains why non-organic foods are bad for you - and sometimes I think ignorance is bliss. It is interesting that canned tuna is healthier than fresh - because it is from smaller species w/ lower levels of mercury. This book has made me think about and become more aware of where my food comes from, how it is grown and how it is p
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Dec 02, 2011
Tiffany
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Very helpful reference for sorting out all those confusing, competing priorities and labels: organic, humane, grass-fed, free-range, fair trade, hormone-free, local, etc. to make decisions that might actually matter when grocery shopping and cooking. What do locavores eat in the middle of winter in northern states? Is it really worth buying organic veggies shipped across the country or around the world? What do all those claims mean on food packaging? It never occurred to me that maybe bananas d
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Oct 04, 2010
Jessica
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I was so excited to read this book since on the cover it said it included "...advice and recipes from: Michael Pollan...[and]Barbara Kingsolver...", but I was disappointed overall. Although there is some good advice on various issues with eating consciously, the tone of the book is a little pushy about everything. It is very important for me to eat humanely raised, organic food, but I appreciate books that don't try to cram that down your throat. For a lot of people converting from
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Jul 29, 2010
Amy
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"Not enough of us know that our salad greens and chickens are being dunked in chlorine baths to disinfect them, that bottled water is actually overpriced tap water shipped around the country in questionable plastic containers that taint their contents and overwhelm our landfills, that dinner might contain genetically modified food, that vegetables have been sprayed with probable carcinogens and possibly even chemical pesticides currently banned in the United States but still used in countri
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Oct 05, 2010
Lara
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Such a great book! I was really happy to find another person who was so interested in ALL the different areas in which "greening" can happen in our life. Diet is important, but what we use to cook with and eat on also have a profound environmental impact, and Alexandra Zissu does a stand up job of laying it all out there in a fun and easy way. This is easily a book I would recommend to ALL of my health coaching clients!
Mar 10, 2011
Orea
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A handy guide to all kinds of things that you have in your daily life. She presents her views very concisely and if you want to investigate things further she mentions lots of different web sites to check out.
Feb 12, 2011
Sara
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The food issues were not really new to me, but the chapters on cookware and waste were helpful as well as the all the resources/websites listed.
Apr 10, 2010
Teechbiz
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Lots of helpful advise and recipes from Emeril Lagasse, Barbara Kingsolver, Dan Barber, and others.
I found it very informative
I found it very informative
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Jun 28, 2010
Mamatoe
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I learned a lot from this book, but my favorite part was all of the resources. About half way through (it was an impulse selection from the library) I realized that I am going to need to go and buy a copy so that I can use it for reference.
Jul 27, 2010
Jennifer
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Very interesting book, nothing new in terms of information but presented in a different way. Thought it was funny that on the same page the author goes on about how bad bananas are in terms of their carbon footprint, a sidebar mentions a locally grown crop a consumer could try is the paw paw. THEN the sidebar says if you can't find paw paws locally, go to X website to order them! Um, contradictory advice?
May 31, 2011
Chade66
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This is a great book for people who are just starting to wrestle with food issues like sustainability, organic, local and what choices are right for you and your family.
Oct 13, 2010
Pianose
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Instead of focusing on problems the way many food and sustainability books, which I still think is a wonderful to educate ourselves on the issues of these two, this simply advises you on what you can do to live a more sustainable and healthier lifestyle. Zissu has read many, many books and has conveniently compiled all of the tips in one book.
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