{"product_id":"the-blue-plate-a-food-lovers-guide-to-climate-chaos-hardcover","title":"The Blue Plate: A Food Lover's Guide to Climate Chaos - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Easter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnthony Myint\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by), \u003cb\u003eLiam O'Farrell\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Beard Award Finalist 2025, \"Food Issues and Advocacy\" Category\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, Gold Award, IBPA Book Awards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Authoritative, entertaining, and useful -- this is the book I have been waiting for.\" -- Kathleen Dean Moore, author of \u003ci\u003eEncouragement for Earth's Weary Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDo you really know what's for dinner? \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Plate\u003c\/i\u003e is the perfect dinner companion for food lovers who also care about the planet.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eEcologist Mark Easter offers a detailed picture of the impact the foods you love have on the earth. Organized by the ingredients of a typical dinner party, including seafood, salad, bread, chicken, steak, potatoes, and fruit pie with ice cream, each chapter examines the food through the lens of the climate crisis. Not a cookbook, but instead, gathered like guests around the table, you will find the stories of these foods: the soil that grew the lettuce, the farmers and ranchers and orchardists who steward the land, the dairy and farm workers and grocers who labor to bring it to the table. Each chapter reveals the causes and effects of greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the social and environmental impact of out-of-season and far-from-home demand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat can you do to eat more sustainably? Food lovers everywhere will be happy to know that the answer is not necessarily a plant-based diet. For each food group, Easter offers not recipes but low-carbon, in-season alternatives that make your favorite foods not only more sustainable but also more delicious.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first step, however, is an understanding of how food is grown, produced, harvested, and shipped. In stories both personal and entertaining, the author offers a full understanding of what's for dinner. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark J. Easter\u003c\/b\u003e is an ecologist who has conducted research in academia and private industry since 1988. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1982 and a M.S. in Botany from the University of Vermont in 1991.\u003c\/p\u003e Easter authored and co-authored more than fifty scientific papers and reports related to carbon cycling and the carbon footprint of agriculture, forestry, and other land uses. He contributed analyses to multiple reports published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In 2018 he was named a fellow of the Colorado State University School of Global Environmental Sustainability. Besides his scientific work, Easter co-founded the organization \u003ci\u003eSave The Poudre\u003c\/i\u003e and is a founding board member of the organization \u003ci\u003eSave the Colorado\u003c\/i\u003e. He works with these organizations to help restore rivers to healthy conditions and protect rivers from water development. He loves to read, cook from his garden, hike and ski in wild places, and spend time with his wife, Leslie Brown and their dog, Bonny, where he lives in Fort Collins, CO. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnthony Myint\u003c\/b\u003e is an American restaurateur, chef, activist, author, and food consultant based in the Mission in San Francisco. He is a founder of Mission Chinese Food, \"The Perennial,\" Mission Street Food, Mission Cantina, \"Mission Burger,\" \"Lt. 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