Pot, Pan, Planet: A greener way to cook for you, your family and the planet
Award-winning cook Anna Jones blazes the trail again for how we all want to cook now: quick, sustainably and stylish. In her fourth cookbook, 'One', the queen of the greens gives over 150 recipes alongside dozens of ideas for super-quick one-pan, one-tray suppers. All delicious, whether made vegetarian or vegan, Anna also helps you to reduce waste, use leftovers and make your kitchen plastic free.
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Nice recipes however the author (and publisher) definitely should have done some fact-checking on claims made about the environmental impact of eating ‘local'.
At several points in the book the author seems to posit that eating local and reducing food miles is the best thing we can do to reduce our impact on the climate - even going so far as to claim that eating locally raised grass-fed beef would be better than eating a processed vegan sausage that's been flown into the country.
This is completely false. Beef is by far the most carbon-intensive food we can eat, wherever it's grown, whatever it's fed, not matter no how. The carbon footprint of transporting most foods is fairly insignificant compared to what is required to produce it in the first place. ESPECIALLY BEEF. (See https://www.co2everything.com/co2e-of/beef or https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local or the book ‘How bad are bananas')
Spreading misinformation like this is is both unhelpful and easily avoided in the 21st century. Eating local is great for a variety of other reasons but a very weak argument for climate action - I get the feeling the author is more keen on morally demonising processed foods than coming to terms with this fact. :)