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DIET FOR A SMALL PLANET

Frances Moore Lappé

50th Anniversary Edition

Discover a way of eating that revolutionized the meaning of our food choices and sold more than 3 million copies -- now in a 50th-anniversary edition with a timely introduction plus new and updated plant-centered recipes

In 1971, Diet for a Small Planet broke new ground, revealing how our everyday acts are a form of power to create health for ourselves and our planet. This extraordinary book first exposed the needless waste built into a meat-centered diet. Now, in a special edition for its 50th anniversary, world-renowned food expert Frances Moore Lappé goes even deeper, showing us how plant-centered eating can help restore our damaged ecology, address the climate crisis, and move us toward real democracy. Sharing her personal journey and how this revolutionary book shaped her own life, Lappé offers a fascinating philosophy on changing yourself -- and the world --that can start with changing the way we eat.

With a new introduction by the author on how the world has changed in the past fifty years--and the ways that Diet for a Small Planet is more relevant now than ever. The 50th anniversary edition contains new b/w illustrations by Aimée Mazara and updates throughout that reflect the latest research

FOOD WORLD EXPERT: Since 2019, Lappé has been in The New York Times Magazine (https://nyti.ms/3jzJVP8) and The Boston Globe (https://bit.ly/2HXRelI) and named one of five women who inspire Ruth Reichl in Food & Wine (https://bit.ly/2GK10r4).

This new edition features 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.

Frances Moore Lappé is the author or co-author of nineteen books about world hunger, living democracy, and the environment, beginning with the three-million-copy Diet for a Small Planet in 1971. She has been featured on the Today show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Fox & Friends, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, the CBC and BBC, and other news outlets.

Frances is the cofounder of three organizations including the think tank Food First and the Small Planet Institute, which she leads with her daughter, Anna Lappé. The pair also cofounded the Small Planet Fund, which channels resources to democratic social movements worldwide.


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Published 1977-09-01 by Ballantine Books

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When Lappé wrote Diet for a Small Planet, she changed the lives of an entire generation. Long before anyone was talking about sustainability or climate change, Lappé was doing the math and showing us that the American way of eating was unsustainable. . . . Diet has influenced my food choices ever since then. -- Ruth Reichl

Since the publication of [Diet for a Small Planet,] a movement dedicated to the reform of the food system has taken root in America. Lappé's groundbreaking book connected the dots between something as ordinary and all-American as a hamburger and the environmental crisis, as well as world hunger. -- Michael Pollan, The Nation

Diet for a Small Planet (is) her hugely influential book about food and sustainability, which virtually created the publishing category of food politics and turned Ms. Lappé into what she once self-deprecatingly called "the Julia Child of the soybean circuit." Read more...

Diet for a Small Planet' helped spark a food revolution. 50 years later, it's evolving. [Read more] Read more...

Book trailer for the 50th anniversary edition. Read more...

Named "one of the most influential political tracts of the times" by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History

A small number of people in every generation are forerunners --in thought, action, spirit -- who swerve past the barriers of greed and power to hold a torch high for the rest of us. Lappé is one of those. -- Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States

[...] Frances Moore Lappé is one of the few people who can credibly be said to have changed the way we eat -- and one of an even smaller group to have done it for the better. --The New York Times

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This clip features Frances Moore Lappe in a really wonderful way - with some amazing archival shots, too! Click to 37:14 Future of Meat to jump directly to our segment Read more...