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But don’t just take my word for it. Here’s what some other folks have to say about why you need to own a copy or three of Cook Food.
Amanda Marcotte reviews Cook Food at Pandagon.
Overwhelmed by all the politics on your plate? Paralyzed by guilt every time you shop for food? In this delectable guide, Lisa Jervis shows not just how easy it can be to eat with your conscience and with the planet, but also how cheap, how swift, and how delightful it is to feel at home in the kitchen. —Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
With a heavy emphasis on local and unprocessed eating, Cook Food will help you overcome your hesitations about going veg or passing on the vegan bologna. A great resource for those stepping into the kitchen for the first time and vegetarians who want to go the distance to make this a healthier planet. —Siue Moffat, author of Lickin’ the Beaters vegan dessert cookbooks
Thanks to Lisa Jervis for not only distilling such important information into digestible bites, but for putting the theory into practice with excellent and inspiring recipes. Potluck at my place, please! —Michelle Tea, author of Rose of No Man’s Land, Rent Girl, and many more
Want an opportunity to make the world better several times a day? Learn to feed yourself using the rational, witty, simple, and ethical guidelines in Lisa Jervis’s manual, Cook Food. It’s the Dennis Kucinich of cookbooks: petite, political, powerful, with a profound lack of B.S. Read it and eat. —Jennifer Baumgardner, coauthor of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future and author of Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics.
Cook Food is equal parts inspiration, call to arms, cooking school, and guide to making everything more yummy. It also demonstrates, powerfully, how to marry important ideals about food with the realities of day-to-day living. —Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, author of Surprised By God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion
Finally! A thoroughly smart and useful book on the topic of food and social justice that fat people (and people of all sizes) can enjoy. Lisa offers so very many good, convincing reasons to make a smaller footprint, that it’s clear we can discard as unnecessary all of those arguments made on the backs of fat people. Thank you, Lisa, for a delicious, truly cruelty-free book! —Marilyn Wann, author of FAT!SO?—Because You Don’t Have to Apologize for Your Size!
Lisa Jervis’s head, heart, and taste buds are all so exactly in the right place, and reading Cook Food is like having her in your kitchen with you. This book feels like a strong, sane, healthy, funny friend, chatting with you while you cook and saying “try a pinch of that.” It may well prove to be just the kind of companionship people need in order to make that step toward really changing the way they shop, cook, eat, and think about food. —Thisbe Nissen, author of The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook and Osprey Island
With good humor and a level head, this little treatise strips the elitism and the nutrition-fascism out of fresh, honest vegetable-centric food, and offers robust, immensely usable recipes to teach and inspire both the whole-foods newbie and the experienced cook. —Hanne Blank, author of Virgin: The Untouched History and Unruly Appetites
Lisa Jervis has convinced me that I can be a great cook. We can’t come close to being perfect when it comes to preserving the planet or our health, but this persuasive, friendly, and usable book gives us the impetus to be the best we can. We can’t change the world overnight, but we can change our eating habits. —Amy Richards, author of Opting In: Having A Child Without Losing Yourself and co-founder, Third Wave Foundation
Cook Food is an informative, accessible, and downright fun guide to cooking healthily, locally, and responsibly. In addition to the many tasty recipes, Lisa Jervis demystifies the kitchen experience by explaining basic cooking tools and techniques, and encouraging improvisation. A must-have for progressive-minded foodies everywhere! —Julia Serano, author of Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Sure, I appreciate a cookbook with a social conscience. Plus, on a very practical level, Cook Food is just useful to have around. But, hands down, I most value this book for its sense of flavor. Lisa Jervis serves up simple yet sophisticated taste combinations with a global flare that make it easy—and even fun—to do the right thing with one’s diet. —Paula Kamen, author of Feminist Fatale and Finding Iris Chang
