I May Need To Start A New Blog: The Food Matters Cookbook
16 Sep
Bittman and company are getting ready to drop a monster on us: the long awaited (by me, at least) Food Matters Cookbook, which is a How to Cook Everything length cookbook based on the tenets laid out in 2008’s Food Matters.
That book extolls the values of flipping your diet’s proportion of meat and processed foods to fruits, veggies, grains and other whole foods. The average American eats something like 80% meat and processed or junk foods, with 20% of their diet being whole foods. You know the problems this causes: no one should eat that much meat or processed corn, it’s bad for your body, it’s bad for the environment. Food Matters was appealing to me because it’s not a diet book inasmuch as it doesn’t give you any steadfast rules. Bittman works on a vegan-until-dinner system, but he outlined in that book any number of strategies for eating better, without feeling like you’re on a diet, which you’re not. I liked the book; it stuck with me and I’m certainly eating more vegetables since I read it, because it made such a change seem really easy and attainable, and for the most part it is. I think I have a long way to go (lunch in midtown is hard–I love my street meat!), but I already feel better.
I’m hoping that I can get my hands on a review copy, because I’d love to do a month or so here at Ben Cooks Everything of Food Matters recipes!
The Food Matters Cookbook Is Almost Here [bittman]
