The Blue Plate
A Food Lover's Guide to Climate Chaos
by Mark Easter
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Pub Date Sep 17 2024 | Archive Date Dec 31 2024
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Description
Ecologist Mark Easter offers a detailed picture of the impact the foods you love have on the earth. Organized by the ingredients of a typical dinner party, including seafood, salad, bread, chicken, steak, potatoes, and fruit pie with ice cream, each chapter examines the food through the lens of the climate crisis. Not a cookbook, but instead, gathered like guests around the table, you will find the stories of these foods: the soil that grew the lettuce, the farmers and ranchers and orchardists who steward the land, the dairy and farm workers and grocers who labor to bring it to the table. Each chapter reveals the causes and effects of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the social and environmental impact of out-of-season and far-from-home demand.
What can you do to eat more sustainably? Food lovers everywhere will be happy to know that the answer is not necessarily a plant-based diet. For each food group, Easter offers not recipes but low-carbon, in-season alternatives that make your favorite foods not only more sustainable but also more delicious.
The first step, however, is an understanding of how food is grown, produced, harvested, and shipped. In stories both personal and entertaining, the author offers a full understanding of what’s for dinner.
Advance Praise
“Tag along with one of the premier scientists studying our food system's carbon footprint, as he takes us on a fascinating journey to meet the farmers, ranchers, and composters who are dramatically slashing emissions and transforming agriculture from a climate problem to a climate solution.” — Liz Carlisle, author of Lentil Underground, Grain by Grain and Healing Grounds
“The Blue Plate is a lively look at the carbon footprint of our food — a journey that takes us across America and zooms in on our favorite eats. Similar in spirit to Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush, this book directs an honest gaze at what’s going on — and what we can do about it. Grounded in science, and yet told in story, this book teaches, inspires, and informs. From peaches to bread to beer to fish, The Blue Plate is indeed about our planet, our plates, and our future.” — Laura Pritchett, winner of the PEN USA Award, the Colorado Book Award and author of The Blue Hour, Stars Go Blue, and Red Lightning
"In a well-structured mash up of research, analysis, and - above all - story, Mark Easter has created one of the most compelling books about climate change in recent memory. Or wait, is it about food? That's the beauty of the book — it is truly about both, and how our daily choices about what to put on our plates ties us into a global network of food production and delivery that has been the largest contributor to global warming, yet also holds the key to reversing the trend. In they end, they give the readers the power that only knowledge can instill: how to make the choices that support a food system that heals both body and planet... how to create blue plates." —Kate Williams, CEO of 1% for the Planet
"Mark Easter gives us a different way of looking at food and a different way of looking at climate change He clearly loves food and has something important to say about it." —Mark Kurlansky, New York Times bestselling and James A. Beard Award-winning author
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781952338205 |
| PRICE | $30.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 400 |
