The Conscious Kitchen
A Beginner's Guide to Creating a Sustainable, No-Waste Kitchen for a Healthier Home and Planet
Author: Immy Lucas
The Conscious Kitchen is a beginner's guide to transforming how you cook, eat, and stock your kitchen to reduce waste, lower your impact, and live more sustainably.
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The Conscious Kitchen is a beginner's guide to transforming how you cook, eat, and stock your kitchen to reduce waste, lower your impact, and live more sustainably.
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Immy Lucas of popular YouTube channel Sustainably Vegan empowers you to embrace seasonal, plant-based eating and other low-impact practices to create your own conscious kitchen.
We all want to make a difference in the fight against climate change. We all want to live on a healthier planet, have healthier homes, invest in a healthier future. But going fully zero-waste, living off-grid, or completely abandoning fossil fuels isn't easy, affordable, or even possible for many people. For the average consumer who just wants to do a little better, where to begin?
For Immy Lucas, the answer is clear. Since our food system is one of the most high-impact, wasteful areas of modern life, thepath to a more sustainable future starts in the kitchen. InThe Conscious Kitchen,Immy provides you with the starting tools you need to create a more sustainable kitchen in your own home by rethinking the way you source, prepare, cook, store, and dispose of food.
Rooted in a strong foundation ofseasonal, plant-based eating, the book is all about how small steps can have a big impact. How switching to a more seasonal way of eating, being a more considerate shopper, investing in traditional skills like pickling and fermenting, and considering alternative uses for food scraps and leftovers can helpimprove the health of your home and, ultimately, the health of the planet.
In The Conscious Kitchen, you'll discover: A guide to year-round seasonal eating with more than 30 plant-based recipesFood preservation recipes and techniques based on traditional skills like canning, preserving, and fermenting foodStrategies and recipes for cooking with food scraps and leftoversEthical shopping and food sourcing guidelinesEasy food storage and organization hacks to help your stores last longerAn overview of composting techniques and how to use compost to start your first kitchen gardenAnd more! Eminently practical, approachable, and ideal for beginners, The Conscious Kitchen is the perfect book for climate advocates, vegan cooks, homesteaders, zero-waste warriors, and anyone interested in taking their first steps into the world of more sustainable living.
About the Author
Immy Lucas is the creator behind the popular Youtube channel and Instagram handle Sustainably Vegan. Drawn to environmental issues and education since childhood, her mission is to help and inspire people to live as low-impact as possible, from learning how to DIY their own hair products to shopping unpackaged to lobbying local government to change. Immy's work is all about finding small ways to alter our behavior over time, using habit change and easy swaps to get there. Her work has been featured in media outlets like Marie Claire, The Evening Standard, and the BBC.
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