Diet for a Small Planet, with Frances Moore Lappé

Frances Moore Lappé is my guest on Episode 132 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.  Frankie is the author of twenty books, including the three-million copy Diet for a Small Planet. In 2017 she coauthored with Adam Eichen, Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want.  Frances is co-founder of Food First and Small Planet Institute, which she leads with her daughter Anna Lappé. Frances is the recipient of nineteen honorary degrees and the Right Livelihood Award, often called the “Alternative Nobel.”   The 50th-anniversary edition of the extraordinary bestselling book that taught America the social and personal significance of a new way of eating—one that remains a complete guide for eating well in the new millennium—will be released September 21st. This edition features a new introductory chapter, simple rules for a healthy diet; a streamlined, easy-to-use format; delicious food combinations of protein-rich meals without meat; hundreds of wonderful recipes, and much more. It boasts eighty-five updated plant-centered recipes, including more than a dozen new delights from celebrity chefs including Mark Bittman, Padma Lakshmi, Alice Waters, José Andrés, Bryant Terry, Mollie Katzen, and Sean Sherman. Most importantly, it features a new introductory chapter emphasizing how the conversations, lifestyle choices, and impacts we can have on our food systems are, in 2021, equally if not even more crucial to consider as our culture shifts to more sustainable, plant-based eating based on the imposing threat of the climate crisis that threatens our society and world.   www.smallplanet.org