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Item Description

Here is the extraordinary bestselling book that taught America the social and personal significance of a new way of eating—one that remains a complete guide for eating well in the new millennium. Featuring simple rules for a healthy diet; a streamlined, easy-to-use format; delicious food combinations of protein-rich meals without meat; hundreds of wonderful recipes, and much more.

Sharing her personal evolution and how this groundbreaking book changed her own life, world-renowned food expert Frances Moore Lappé offers an all-new philosophy on changing yourself—and the world—by changing the way you eat.

Featuring:

- Simple rules for a healthy diet

- Streamlined, easy-to-use format

- Food combinations that make delicious, protein-rich meals without meat

- Indispensable kitchen hints—a comprehensive reference guide for planning and preparing meals and snacks

- Hundreds of wonderful recipes

With the new emphasis on environmentalism in the 1990s, Lappe stresses how her philosophy remains valid, and how food remains the central issue through which to understand world politics.

Frances Moore Lappé is the author or co-author of 18 books including the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. Her most recent work, released by Nation Books in September 2011, is EcoMind: Changing the Way We Think to Create the World We Want, winner of a silver medal from the Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Environment/Ecology/Nature category. Jane Goodall called the book "powerful and inspiring.

Lappé is the cofounder of three organizations, including Food First: The Institute for Food and Development Policy and, more recently, the Small Planet Institute, a collaborative network for research and popular education seeking to bring democracy to life, which she leads with her daughter Anna Lappé. Frances and her daughter have also cofounded the Small Planet Fund, which channels resources to democratic social movements worldwide.

Find out more: smallplanet.org

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