Description
Book SynopsisOur Changing Menu helps us understand how to think about food, rather than what to think. The diversity of the co-authors'' experiences is woven together to create awareness and help us get involved in improving our diets, while reducing food waste and food''s impacts on climate change and the planet. Jason Clay, Senior Vice President, Markets, World Wildlife Fund
Our Changing Menu unpacks the increasingly complex relationships between food and climate change. Whether you''re a chef, baker, distiller, restaurateur, or someone who simply enjoys a good pizza or drink, it''s time to come to terms with how climate change is affecting our diverse and interwoven food system.
Michael P. Hoffmann, Carrie Koplinka-Loehr, and Danielle L. Eiseman offer an eye-opening journey through a complete menu of before-dinner drinks and salads; main courses and sides; and coffee and dessert. Along the way they examine the escalating changes occurring to the
Trade Review
Our Changing Menu is a detailed, lively overview of how the world's most popular eats arrive to the table under more and more challenging conditions... The book's concise analysis of climate science and its effects on water, soil, pests, pollinators, and pathogens is engaging and accessible.
* Foreword Review *
Our Changing Menu is an excellent introduction to the science behind our changing planet and the problems presented by climate change. Where the book is most successful is the way it takes a massive problem, and breaks it down into solutions that can lead to meaningful action.
* Stone Pier Press *
This book is very well researched and easy to read. It is also recommended for anyone wanting to expand their knowledge about global food systems and how we can keep on enjoying the foods we know and love in an uncertain time of global change.
* Green Teacher *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
BACKGROUND: SETTING THE TABLE
1. Our Food Supply: From Land and Sea to the Menu
2. Our Changing Climate
3. Climate Change: How It Is Fundamentally Altering the Menu
THE MENU
4. Beer, Wine, and Spirits: Raise Your Glass
5. Salads: Distinct, Diverse, Delicious
6. The Main Course
7. Grains, Starches, and Other Sides
8. Dessert and Coffee
SOLUTIONS: TACKLING CLIMATE CHANGE AND SAVING THE MENU
9. Farmers, Businesses, and Scientists: How They Are Helping
10. What We Can Do
