Synopses & Reviews
Reduce Your Carbon Footprint with Green Cuisine "Going green" has spread to the kitchen! Big Green Cookbook is the first comprehensive, climate-conscious cookbook, ideal for both culinary novices and experienced cooks. Food and health expert Jackie Newgent reveals simple, practical, and sometimes even money-saving solutions for choosing and preparing food in planet-pleasing ways. It has never been easier to create everyday meals that maximize flavor while minimizing your environmental impact. Inside you'll find:
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A green kitchen checklist
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Over 200 delicious, easy-to-prepare, seasonal recipes that feature fresh, all-natural foods
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Guidelines for going organic and tips for buying locally
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Nutrition information and earth-friendly cooking tips with every recipe
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Clever, new techniques for low-carbon cooking
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An eco-friendly shopping guide and seasonal produce guide
"The Big Green Cookbook shows you how deliciously easy it can be to reduce your carbon 'food' print. It's the perfect tool for anyone who wants to eat well and treat the earth right."
—Ellie Krieger, host of Food Network's Healthy Appetite and author of The Food You Crave
"Big Green Cookbook is THE step-by-step guide for greening your kitchen and your cuisine. Packed with easy tips and fantastic recipes based on the best of the season, Jackie Newgent shows America how tasty green cuisine can be, and why it's so critical to our planet."
—Kate Geagan, MS, RD, author of Go Green Get Lean
Synopsis
Whether we are buying, cooking, serving, or storing food, every day we can reduce energy consumption and promote sustainable, environmentally sound agriculture and fisheries. This one-stop guide to eco-friendly cooking helps everyone get started. Author Jackie Newgent clarifies what goes into a green kitchen--from choosing local, seasonal, organic, and sustainable products to eating less meat. Of course, to be part of a sustainable
lifestyle, the food must taste good. To help make green cuisine easy for everyday meals, Newgent provides 200 simple, delicious recipes, organized seasonally--with additional year-round recipes, too. They include:Spring: Organic Beef Carpaccio with Parmesan and Spicy Fruit Relish Summer: Corn, Fresh Bean, and Bell Pepper Frittata Autumn: Thin-and-Crispy Fig Oatmeal Cookies Winter: Leek and Yukon Gold Potato Clam Chowder Year-round: Buckwheat Cr?pes with Triple-Cr?me Cheese and Microgreens
Printed with soy-based ink on recycled paper and featuring an eco-friendly shopping guide as well as helpful sidebars on topics such as "Loving Your Leftovers," Big Green Cookbookis a must for everyone who wants to embrace the green lifestyle.
Jackie Newgent, RD (Brooklyn, NY), is a registered dietician who writes for Glamour, Weight Watchers Magazine, Fitness,and other publications. She appears frequently as a health and nutrition expert on television and radio and is the author of the award-winning All-Natural Diabetes Cookbook(978-1-58040-275-0). Her Web site is jackienewgent.com.
About the Author
Jackie Newgent, RD, is a registered dietitian and cookbook author who contributes to Glamour, Weight Watchers, Prevention, and other national publications. She appears frequently as a culinary, nutrition, and health expert on television and radio. The author of the award-winning The All-Natural Diabetes Cookbook, Newgent is also an instructor at the Institute of Culinary Education in New York. Her Web sites are biggreencookbook.com and jackienewgent.com. Check out biggreencookbook.com for recipe photos and to learn more about cooking green.
Table of Contents
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Recipe Highlights.
Food Miles: Do They Matter?
Finding Your Sustainable "Sweet Spot".
The Green Kitchen Checklist.
Twenty-seven Clever Tips for Low-carbon Cooking.
Eco-friendly Shopping Guide.
Go Organic.
Waste Not.
Seven Ways to Love your Leftovers.
Planet-Pleasing Party Tips.
Luscious, Low-carbon Menus.
In this Cookbook….
Recipes.
Spring.
Summer.
Autumn.
Winter.
All-Year-Round.
Seasonal Produce Guide.
Find a Farmers Market.
The Big Green Glossary.
For More Information.
Index.