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Recommended green/sustainable cookbooks/books. Shop CHEFnews! for more listings.
 Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver.
Barbara and her family chose to live one year on their farm in southern Appalachia, “eating food so close to home, we’d know the person who grew it.” Most of which they grew themselves. This is a delightfully entertaining read (turkey sex?!) filled with lots of information on how food is massed produced to a point where it is almost non-food. It will get you thinking about how food is grown, processed and distributed to end up on your dinner plate.
Cool Cuisine: Taking the Bite Out of Global Warming  by Laura Stec
This is a quick, enjoyable, informative read, and inspires personal life changes with in-depth research, easy recipes, ideas for your next book group "read and eat" tasting party, and simple tips on how to cook a global-cooling cuisine. The book presents the full cycle on how our agrochemical food system affects global warming and how global warming affects the food system.
 In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart by Alice Waters
This book features chefs explaining basic cooking techniques that once “learned by heart” as the title implies, will serve you in good stead to be able to create affordable, wholesome, and easy to prepare dishes. A good beginning resource for cooks new to local, seasonal cooking….lots of helpful tips throughout the book.
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan 
Written with the clarity, concision, and wit that are Michael Pollan's trademark, this indispensable handbook lays out a set of straightforward, memorable rules for eating wisely. The book offers 64 rules for you to eat simply and sensibly. Witty comments that will entertain as well as educate consumers to eat healthy. A fun read and a great gift!
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