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(Cook)book review: Diet for a Small Planet 16 March 2007 4:13 pm

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Holy monkey gods, y’all. Even the title of this entry should make it clear that I’m still a bit bewildered by my recent reading of Frances Moore Lappé’s 1971 classic, Diet for a Small Planet (it’s only partly a cookbook, is what I’m trying to say with those parentheses). As of Saturday 10 March, I have in fact read all of the non-recipe parts and skimmed most of the recipes, and my mind is still more than a little blown. On Monday, I turned in a review for my sustainable agriculture class, and since then I have been wondering how to adapt that review for TracyFood purposes. Here’s what I’ve got. (more…)