The Natural Kitchen: Your Guide to the Sustainable Food Revolution

by Tull, Deborah Eden

• ISBN13: 9781934170120
• ISBN10: 1934170127
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-21
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

This quietly revolutionary guidebook brings us into the kitchen, where the daily choices we make involving food have a profound impact both on our lives and the world at large. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Deborah Eden Tull draws on years of experience as an organic gardener and cook, a sustainability coach, and a Zen Buddhist monk to introduce simple but life-changing ways for urbanites to adopt a mindful and sustainable relationship with food-from shopping, cooking, growing, and storing food, maintaining the kitchen, and eating out to community food sharing and tips for parents.

Table of Contents

Introduction: How Greening Your Kitchen Can Change Your Life: From Consumer to Earth Steward	p. 7
The Principles of Sustainability and the Food You Eat	p. 19
Radical Recycling and Zero Waste: Transforming Trash Into a Path of Gems	p. 29
Food Waste and Composting: There is No Such Thing as "Away"	p. 39
Where Your Food Comes From: The Real Deal	p. 53
Five Guidelines for Shoppers: The Monks and the Bananas	p. 73
Green Menu Planning: Notes From the Zen Kitchen	p. 91
Setting Up a Natural Kitchen: Tips from A Hippie Grandmother	p. 121
Cooking to Conserve Energy	p. 145
Going Beyond Plastics: Eco-Friendly Containers for Food Storage and Cooking	p. 159
How to Grow Food in Your Own Backyard	p. 167
Eating on the Go, Packing a Lunch and Dining Out	p. 187
Sustainable Food for Children: The Natural Magic of Food	p. 199
Mindful Eating: Cultivating Sensitivity to Our Bodies, Our Selves, Our Planet	p. 217
Community Food Sharing: The Kitchen That Gives Back	p. 233
Cultivating Sustainability From the Inside Out	p. 243
A Workbook to Support Your Success	p. 253
Glossary	p. 259
Resource List	p. 265
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