Recipes

By popular demand, this section features our most commonly requested recipes. Whether you are looking for an out-of-print recipe from the first edition of Diet for a Small Planet, or the latest recipe from Grub, look no further.

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Chameleon Spice Cake

Curried Soybeans and Peanuts

Easy Mexican Pan Bread

Enchilada Bake

Garbanzo Cheese Salad

Garbanzo Patties

Lentils, Monastery Style

Middle Eastern Tacos

Minestrone Con Crema

Mulligatawny

Stuffed Eggplant

Tabouli-Zesty Lebanese Salad

Thinking Person's Cheesecake Version II

Cajun-Spiced Tempeh Po’ Boys (undressed)

Chocolate-Rosemary Pudding with Dark Chocolate-Covered Espresso Beans

Citrus Collards with Raisins

Coconut-Infused Quinoa

Fresh Herb-Baked French Fries with Creole Mustard

Mac 4 Cheese (with Leeks)

Red Bell Peppers Stuffed with Seitan, Roasted Tomatoes, and Rice

Spicy Tempeh Sausage Patties with Roasted Yellow Pepper Sauce

Tropical Corn Dumplings with Maple Syrup and Star Anise

Water Cress and Grilled Pineapple Salad with Avocado and Sour Orange Dressing

Bengali Lentil Soup

Celebrating Root Vegetable Soup

Coconut-Ginger Curry

Feijoada (Tangy Black Beans) Dinner

Food First Spicy Garlic Eggplant

Fresh Peapod and Rice Salad

Greens with Sesame Seed Topping and Orange Slices

Indra and Syvlie's Chai

Madame Reiffsteck's Apple Tart

The Edible Schoolyard Empanada

Surprising Facts

Ninety percent of Americans make less in real dollars than they did in 1973 – on average $4,000 less. The wealthiest 400 Americans now control more wealth than half the world’s people.

Worldwide, more people are members of cooperatives than own shares in publicly traded companies. Cooperatives provide a fifth more jobs than do global corporations.

More than a third of both the world’s grain and fish catch now go to feed livestock, which return to us only a fraction of the nutrients.

If the whole world moved to sustainable agriculture, a U. of Michigan study found that enough food could be grown to feed the world’s current and projected population.

An MRI study of people competing vs. cooperating found that cooperating stimulates the same parts of our brain as does eating chocolate!

America emits twice the carbon per person that Europe does. But think what’s possible: California emits 20 percent less carbon per dollar GDP than Germany; and it gets almost a quarter of its electricity from renewables!

In Washington DC, more than two dozen lobbyists push mainly corporate interests for every one representative American citizens have elected to protect our interests.

In 2011, solar use grew all over the world, soaring 54% to 28 gigawatts.

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