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Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes [Hardcover]

Mark Bittman (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 326 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1 edition (30 Dec 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1416575642
  • ISBN-13: 978-1416575641
  • Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 793,163 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wake up call for the planet. 4 Feb 2009
By Gary Sage
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is truly a book whose time has come. Bittman is sensitive, pragmatic and sane as he tackles thorny global ecology issues, all the while this book is simultaneously entertaining, educational and an inspiration to anyone who cares for and about what they eat and where their food comes from. If we all heeded Bittman's advice the world could become a better place.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A Food Writer and Cookbook Author Describes How to Eat Healthier and Reduce Your Carbon Footprint 18 Mar 2009
By Donald Mitchell HALL OF FAME TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Hardcover
Food Matters is a lightweight (pun intended) look at how your eating choices affect the environment, your health, and your weight. Mark Bittman provides familiar arguments in favor of enjoying food choices that don't use as many resources that are also good for you to eat. To underscore the point, he describes how he lost weight by changing to more environmentally friendly choices (fruits, vegetables, nuts, whole grains, and relatively little eggs, dairy, fish, chicken, and beef). The book ends with some recipes to help you switch from animal-protein-centered dishes to ones that either have little protein or none. He also teaches you how to prepare and keep masses of vegetable- and fruit-based ingredients ready to go for tasty eating.

As far as this book goes, it's well done . . . but it's just not enough for many people to buy and use the book. Here are some examples of problems with the book:

1. He argues that you shouldn't buy out-of-season fruits and vegetables from halfway around the world because of all energy expended. In many developing countries, out-of-season fruits and vegetables are the way that poor farmers are trying to get out of poverty and use less environmentally damaging methods. Mr. Bittman doesn't differentiate between who is producing the out-of-season fruits and vegetables and how they are produced. In some cases at least, doing the opposite of his advice can be an environmentally friendly decision.

2. He focuses on food-related ways to reduce the carbon footprint without considering how you cook and store the food and that impact on carbon footprint.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Very good 21 Nov 2012
By chris mcgowan
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Good book for those who want to eat healthily and be aware of their affect on the environment. Some ingredients are not staples in my kitchen cupboards but some recipes are brilliant
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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting read but not really a recipe book 17 Feb 2010
By R. J. Baker
Format:Hardcover
Saw this in Runners World and thought it would be a useful addition to the cook books. The book is a really interesting commentary on food manufacturing and farming. There are recipies which are good and tasty.
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