Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat

Frances Moore Lappe

Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Country
United States
Published
21 September 2021
Pages
480
ISBN
9780593357774

Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat

Frances Moore Lappe

Discover a way of eating that revolutionized the meaning of our food choices and sold more than 3 million copies-now in a 50th-anniversary edition with a timely introduction plus new and updated plant-centered recipes

Frances Moore Lappe is one of the few people who can credibly be said to have changed the way we eat-and one of an even smaller group to have done it for the better. -The New York Times

In 1971,Diet for a Small Planetbroke new ground, revealing how our everyday acts are a form of power to create health for ourselves and our planet. This extraordinary book first exposed the needless waste built into a meat-centered diet. Now, in a special edition for its 50th anniversary, world-renowned food expert Frances Moore Lappe goes even deeper, showing us how plant-centered eating can help restore our damaged ecology, address the climate crisis, and move us toward real democracy. Sharing her personal journey and how this revolutionary book shaped her own life, Lappe offers a fascinating philosophy on changing yourself-and the world-that can start with changing the way we eat.

This new edition features eighty-five updated plant-centered recipes, including more than a dozen new delights from celebrity chefs including Mark Bittman, Padma Lakshmi, Alice Waters, Jose Andres, Bryant Terry, Mollie Katzen, and Sean Sherman.

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