Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet

Diet For A Small Planet

If you’ve never read DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET you’ll find it a warm, caring, human philosophy of how the way we eat affects not only ourselves but our world.

This amazing book is also a complete kitchen guide, filled with tips, suggestions, and delicious recipes—a total guide to eating well.

Also by Frances Moore Lappe
Published by Ballantine Books:

GREAT MEATLESS MEALS
FOOD FIRST
WHAT TO DO AFTER YOU TURN OFF THE TV
REDISCOVERING AMERICA’S VALUES

A Ballantine Book
Published by The Random House Publishing Group
Copyright © 1971, 1975, 1982, 1991 by Frances Moore Lappé

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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 82-1655

eISBN: 978-0-307-75453-0

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v3.1

For Betty Ballantine, whose foresight, thank
was better than mine!

Contents

Cover

Other Books by This Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Diet for a Small Planet Twenty Years Later—An Extraordinary Time to Be Alive

BOOK ONE: DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET

Preface

Part I.   Recipe for a Personal Revolution

1. An Entry Point

2. My Journey

Part II.  Diet for a Small Planet

1. One Less Hamburger?

2. Like Driving a Cadillac

3. The Meat Mystique

4. Democracy at Stake

5. Asking the Right Questions

Part III. Diet for a Small Planet Revisited

1. America’s Experimental Diet

2. Who Asked for Fruit Loops?

3. Protein Myths: A New Look

4. Protein Complementarity: The Debate

Part IV.  Lessons for the Long Haul

1. What Can We Do?

2. How to Plug In

BOOK TWO: EATING WELL ON A SMALL PLANET: COMPLEMENTARY PROTEIN RECIPES, MENUS, TIPS

Preface

Part I.   Tips for Making Meals Without Meat

1. What Is a Meal Without Meat?

2. “But It Takes Too Much Time …”

3. Understanding Protein Complementarity

Part II.  Meatless Meals in a Dish

1. Sauces That Make a Meal

2. Something from the Oven

3. International Meals from the Top of the Stove

4. Pie-in-the-Sky Suppers

5. The Universal Favorite: The Sandwich

6. A Meal in a Soup Pot

7. A Meal in a Salad Bowl

Part III. Meatless Menus for Special Occasions

1. The Indian Feast (Version One)

2. The Indian Feast (Version Two)

3. Middle Eastern Specialty

4. Brazilian Evening

5. Greek Gala

6. Mexican Banquet (Version One)

7. Mexican Banquet (Version Two)

8. Dinner in Italy

9. Oriental Specialty

10. Harvest Dinner

11. Pizza Party

Part IV.  And All the Extras

1. Snacks, Appetizers, and Candies That Count

2. Start-Right Breakfasts

3. Baked-In Protein

4. Protein for Dessert

Appendixes

A
. Education for Action: Recommended Books and Periodicals

B
. Basic Cooking Instructions for Beans, Grains, Nuts, and Seeds

C
. Protein-Calorie Guidelines for Evaluating Foods

D
. Protein Tables and Tips for Complementing Proteins

E
. Cost of One Day’s Protein Allowance

F
. Whole Wheat Flour Compared to White Flour

G
. Brown Rice Compared to Other Types of Rice

H
. Sugars, Honey, and Molasses Compared

I
. Food Additives: What’s Safe? What to Avoid?

J
. Recommended Paperback Cookbooks

Notes

About the Author

List of Figures

1. A Protein Factory in Reverse

2. Calories of Fossil Fuel Expended to Get 1 Calorie of Protein

3. Amount of Water to Produce 1 Pound of Protein from Various Food Sources

4. Impact of the Experimental American Diet

5. Sodium in Fresh versus Processed Foods

6. Fiber in 4 Slices of Bread and Other Foods

7. Control of Our Food by Shared Monopolies

8. The Price of a Brand Name

9. Who Owns the Fast Food Giants

10. Hypothetical All-Plant-Food Diet (Just to Prove a Point)

11. Hypothetical Mixed Plant and Dairy Diet (Just to Prove a Point)

12. The Problem of a “Limiting Amino Acid”

13. What is “NPU”?

14. The Food/Protein Continuum

15. Demonstrating Protein Complementarity

16. Summary of Complementary Protein Relationships

17. Calorie “Cost” per Gram of Usable Protein

18. Cost of Getting One Day’s Recommended Protein Allowance

       
Protein Tables (see Appendix D)