Groundbreaking Recipes And Skills That Could Save The Planet is an inspiring cookbook and beautifully designed manual of ideas to consider, practices to adopt and techniques to learn for a more sustainable kitchen.
Author Jo Barrett is one of Australia’s most respected chefs and was part of the team behind urban eco-house futurefoodsystem, a landmark experiment in zero waste living. Her striking debut provides innovative and achievable solutions to help you connect with your food system with over 90 purposeful, nutritious recipes.
Featuring brilliant dishes from stuffed potato cakes to red pepper pasta, venison pie and plum galette, this vital book shows the home cook how to master simple skill builders – such as fermenting, preserving and using alternative ingredients – and will help save the planet one delicious meal at a time.
Jo currently resides in North Carolina with her patient and supportive family while she juggles her writing career and her position as a programmer analyst.
She has won numerous awards and continues to write whenever she can.
Someday, she hopes to take off her programming hat and write full time.
So many of her dreams have already come true. What's one more?
A passionate powerhouse of a chef, showing that sustainability, food and rethinking is possible. Breaking things down to make complexity possible, explaining the skills you can expand with and the impact you can make with each recipe - what a talented and thoughtful author, teacher and changemaker that is Jo Barrett. I’ve enjoyed trying a number of the recipes and building my skills, and look forward to more as I continue to explore this.